THE BARQUE PYRENES BURNED.
The Crew Saved,
(per press association.)
Auckland, This Day. The steamer Oralau arrived from he Eastern Pacific.
She reports the destruction by fire at sea of the four-masted barque Pyrenes which left Taconra on October 11th with a cargo of wheat for Glasgow. The fire broke out among the cargo. The vessel was beached on Gambier Island, 800 miles from Tahiti.
The crew began salvage operations and everything possible was being removed, hut they could not subdue the lire and Captain Boyce determined to abandon the ship. The crew were'picked up by a trading schooner and taken to Papeete where the salvage was sold for £2OO. The crew went to San Francisco on Jan 2 k
When the ship was abandoned, the fire was raging from stem to stern.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 7 February 1901, Page 3
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133THE BARQUE PYRENES BURNED. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 7 February 1901, Page 3
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