INVERLOCHY WRECK
THROWN BROADSIDE ON TO ROOKS, By, Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. MELBOURNE, December 29. At the time of the wreck or flic li> verlocliy, there was a , moderate l«*diug wind. The mate was in charge, and tried to 'bout, ship, hut the vessel missed stays, and backed on to the reef. The sea caught hci, mid threw her broadside oil to the rocks. Tim water at. Ibe time w«s fanly smooth, lull. a. big swell rose and caused trouble ‘in gel ling out, Die boats,the vessel rocking from side to side. 1 lie poop liftings" were east about, on deck, and the masts swayed, straining to the utmost. Kegring they would fall, the crew took to the boats. They only got away with what they stood in. They had io keep dead before the wind to avoid shipping heavy seas. It took from II p.m. till 7 next morning to effect a landing. MELBOURNE, Dec. 21. The Inverlochy’s cargo, chiefly consigned to Melbourne, was valued at from thirtv to tlvirty-fivc thousand pounds The insurances are mostly in colonial offices, amounting to from twenty to twenty-live thousand pounds Australian news
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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 701, 22 December 1902, Page 2
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