A HELPLESS BARQUE.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Fremantle, May 16. The steamer St. Mary has landed the crew of the Dutch barque Geertruider Gerada, bound from Java to Newcastle. She fell in with the barque in latitude 30deg. 20, longitude lOOdeg. 40. The barque wps drifting hopelessly. The men stated that ten days previously the captain, his wife, and sixteen of the crew left in an open boat for Java, then eighteen hundred miles distant. The others refused to go, considering the boat overloaded, and that it could not live. The barque struck rough weather on April 27 and heeled over. They cut away the masts. The position got gradually worse, and the captain decided to abandon the vessel.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 418, 17 May 1902, Page 2
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