COLLISION OF BARQUES.
COIMBATORE POSTED AS MISSING By telegraph, Press Ass’n, Copyright Received 5.25 p.m , Jan. 18. London, Jan. 18. The barque.Ojimbatore baj been posted as lost. It is believed that she foundered after the collision with tho Zanita.
The Coinabatore left Newcastle (N.S.W.) on November 11 last coal-laden for Port Elizabeth, South Africa. The Coimbatore was built at Glasgow in 1865, and her present owners are Norwegians. Her net tonnßge is 1252. A recent cablegram from Adelaide stated The captain of the barque Zanita, which has just arrived at this place, reports that early on Christmas morning he collided with the barque Coimbatore two hundred miles to the west of Cape Lauwin. He believed that the Coimbatore sank. When the Zanita drifted clear he sighted what appeared to be a boat with two men clinging to it, and a second going to the rescuo of the first. The Zanita hove to and cruised about for the remaiador of the night and duriog the next day, but saw no traces of the Coimbatore. While locked together one of the orew jumped on board the Zaoita. The latter had her bowsprit and some gear carried away.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1652, 19 January 1906, Page 2
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