SHIPWRECKS.
A BID STEAMER IX -JEOPARDY FOR 65 HOURS. THIRTY-THREE LIVES LOST. OFFICER RESCUED AFTER 12 HOURS’ SUBMERSION. (Per R.M.S. Sierra, at Auckland.) London, Feb. o. After tossing helplessly in the English Channel for sixty-live hours, the DoverOstend passenger steamer Marie Henriette was towed into Ostend this morning. The steam tnwlcr Anlabv, with a crew of twelve men, bolon g'ng to Hull, was lost in a snowstorm oil Iceland. The first ohirer of the French ship Chanaral was landed at Falmouth to dav. He is the sole survivor of the crew of twenty-two men of the vessel, which was capsized off Osshant. The Chanaral left Nantes, France, on January 20th, and encountered a heavy gale, during which three of her boats were smashed. The same night her ballast shifted, and the ship capsized. The mate and five men had in the meanwhile launched the remaining boat, but this also was capsized, and five men were drowned. The mate clung to the keel of the boat, aud righted her. The boat was afterwards overturned several times, but the mate hel l on to it, and was picked up after being twelve hours in the water. He is in a critical condition.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 353, 1 March 1902, Page 2
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