Barque Tine Wrecked.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 548, 18 October 1902, Page 2

Barque Tine Wrecked.

SIX LIVES LOST

(i’er Press Association)

AU.kLA.Mj, lasi night. ! I he l.arqucntinc May was wrecked on the West t oast at aoout a o'clocK this! morning, south of where the Concordia I was wrecked

AH hands are reported to have been lost, except one native boy. "Ike native, name Dunn, has arrived at ileiensvnle. l;e states he is the only one el the crew oi the .Uav saved.

lhe May left Kaipara. timber laden, I for (JnthiJiga, at 11 o'clock vesterilaj I morning m tow oi the small steamer Pilot. .she met the full force of a! westerly gale last night. At about; midnight, the vessel became unmanageable.

l he May either broke adrift from the Pilot or was east adrift, for Dunn saw no more of the Pilot.

At daylight, they were within two miles of the land. When the May reached the breakers, she capsized. Two of her masts went overboard, and then she commenced to break up. The May was owned by Mr John Harrison, of Aratapu, and was loaded by the Kauri Timber Company. There is no news yet as to how the steamer Pilot fared.

(The May was lor many years a well-known Wellington trader. She ■belonged ■ originally to Messrs Turnbull and Co., and, in. command of Captain Plumley, regularly traded between Wellington and China up till about do

years ago. Captain Gibb, now in command of the s.s. Mokoia, came out to the colony before the mast in her. The May visited Gisborne a few years ago with a cargo of coal.)i 'i lie May was an old Union Company’s boat, formerly engaged in the intercolonial trade m ISDB. She was purchased by Mr J. I-larrison, of Auckland, lor L2UU. After spending £lsl on repairs, he ran her between Kaipara and Manakuu in the timber trade. lie spent an additional .11320 in repairs. She was not insured. She was bringing 160,000 feet of sawn timber to Manakau.

'1 lie May’s crew number seven, and included : Captain Jack Herbert, of Auckland,,a single mart; K. G. Griffin, A. Milne, of Palii ; E. Knight, Hobson street, Auckland ; and Dunn, the survivor. The Pilot is a steamer of 80 horsepower, Captain Broomfield ; Edward Harrison, sailing-master.

FURTHER DETAILS. A NATIVE BOY’S SPLENDID BATTLE FOR LIFE A CHAMPION SWIMMER HAS A TUSSLE IN GRIM EARNEST. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. Later news in regard to the loss of the barquemine May states that Captain Wickham, of the Concordia, reports : Tile vessel came into the breakers at 5.3 U, and immediately capsized. The native boy, Dunn, who was saved, was some thirty minutes in reaching the shore, during the whole of which time he was swimming hard and battling for life in the breakers. At times the boy was under water for at least a, minute. The tide set him down close to the Concordia, when the men. aboard waved their hats shorewards, which gave the lad the direction in which to swim, and saved his life. Dunn holds the Northern Wairoa championship for swimming, and he brought his gold medal ashore.

The vessel is completely .broken up, and the wreckage is strewn lor two' miles along the beach.