WRICK AT MANLY
BARQUE ON THE BEACH
1 j telegraph, Peesa Ass’n, Copyright
Bvdney, Ma\ 25, The vessel ashore at Manly is he Fr nob larque Venoeones, bound from Yokohama, ifr ballast, to Sydney (or urders. She arrived ofi the Heads yesterday aft worn, and signalled for a pilot, A gale was raging, and the weather was too thiok for the signals to be seen at the pilot s-ation. The vessel gradually drifted ashore on the Ocean beaob, and lies broadside on on an oven keel, embedded in the sand. Shortly after the vessel struck four of the crew managed to reaoh the shore in a boat, greatly exhausted. A pilot steamer went to the ecene, but the sea was too roogh to render assistance, and she stood by. This morniog the weather was calm, and at low water it was almost possible to walk aboard, there beiDg only about four feet of water where the barque lies settled in the sand. There are good prospects of salving her if tho weather holds good. The balance of the crew remain aboard.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1759, 26 May 1906, Page 3
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181WRICK AT MANLY Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1759, 26 May 1906, Page 3
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