SHIPPING CASUALTIES
DESTROYER AND TORPEDO BOAT COLLIDE. Receive! 11.32 p.m. March IS. PARIS, March IS. The French destroyer Epee, while manoeuvring with lights out off Ajaccio, collided with a torpedo boat one of whose steam pipes burst, killing a quartermaster and stoker, and wounding another of the crow. The steamer Sucvic struck tho rocks under tho lighthouse at Lizard Point during a log on Sunday night. A rough, south-west gale was blowing. Three life-boats have been sent. No danger to life is anticipated. Tugs were summoned to assist.
Received 1.22 a.m. March 18. SYDNEY, March IS. Tho River Boyne, which left Newcastle on Thursday for Wellington, put in to Sydney to-night lor repairs, having during a gale lost tho upper topsail yard, While coming up tile harbor she collided with a punt. One of the Boyne’s bow plates was damaged above the water line. 1 lie repairs will necessitate considerable delay. ,
BRISBANE, March IS. Tlie chief officer of the A.U.S.N. steamer Mildura went ashore north of the West Capo on Tuesday night. She is regarded as a total loss. There is nine feet of water in the hold. The captain and thirty-one of the crew remained on the vessel. The Mildura lias cattle aboard. There is no fresh water available. It is impossible for help to reach tho men before Saturday. LONDON, March IS. At tho Lizard Rocks, at 5 in the morning, 400 passengers and 1(10 of the crew were gradually landed, lifeboats assisting tlie Sucvic boats ill the work of landing. The inhabitants arc providing every comfort. Many women and children were earlybrought ashore. Splendid discipline was preserved. Everybody has been saved.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2034, 20 March 1907, Page 4
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