SHIPPING.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 142, 17 November 1874, Page 2

SHIPPING.

POET OF LYTTELTON. ARRIVED, Nov 16—James Haimell, barege, 474 tons, McEacham, from Western Australia, with Jarrah sleepers, Nov 17—Lady Bird, s.s., 286 tons, Andrew, from Dunedin. Passengers—saloon : Mrs Habens, Messrs W. Attwood, Ellmer, Palmer, Webster, and 21 for North. Steerage —Mr H. Leslie. SAILED, Nov 17—Kestrel, ketch, 26 tons, Clarkson, for Mackintosh Bay. Nov 17 —Bruce, s.s., 204 tons, Macfarlane, for Dunedin, via intermediate ports. Passengers—saloon: Mr and Mrs D. Wilson, Messrs J. McGlashan, J. Cotton, J. McDonald, W. Munro, Vale, S. Daniels, and Nolen. VESSELS IN HARBOR. ; Steamers —Lady Bird. Ships Dorette, Inverallan, Merope, Endymion, Duke of Edinburgh. Barque Especulador, Coq du Village, Atlantic, Joliba, Mary Ann Annison, Elizabeth Graham, James Hannell. Barquentino—C. L. Taylor, Brigantines and schooners Fairhe, three-masted, Craig Ewan, three-masted, E. U. Cameron, Wild Wave, Florence, Levi Stevens, Malcolm, and Agnes. Brig—Drover. Ketches —Bee, Blackwall, Minnie, Courier, Margaret, Nile. THE KAITUNA. News was received this morning stating that it was supposed the schooner Kaituna, thirty days out from Havelock, was off Bank’s Peninsula dismasted, and requesting masters of vessels to keep a good look out for her. She was bound for Oamaru. A deck lions* supposed to be hers has been Been twenty milqp to seaward of Le Bon’s Bay. Captain Andrews, of the Lady Bird, Saw nothing of her on his passage from Dunedin, though he received a telegram from Mr Ledger, in Dunedin, warning him to look out.

BURNING OF THE AMERICAN SHIPS CENTAUR AND MOGUL.

The “New Zealand Herald ” says:—We have received Information by the Coronet from Tahiti of the destruction of two large American ships by fire. Strange' to relate, both vessels were built in the same year, belonged to the same owner, left the same port together, with similar cargoes, bound for the same place. Both vessels were destroyed by fire in the Pacific Ocean within 200 miles of each other, about the same time, and the survivors reached Tahiti and the Marquesas within a few days of one another, the boats having traversed a distance of 1200 miles, and both crews met in Papeete before the Coronet left, and learnt of each other’s disaster. The variety of coincidences is remarkable. The Centaur was an iron ship of 1255 tons register, owned by Messrs J. Henry Sears and Co, of Boston, and commanded by Captain N. F. Foster. r ?She sailed from Liverpool for San Francisco with a lull cargo of coal. A fire broke out on board amongst the cargo, probably owing to spontaneous combustion, and alter all efforts to stay the progress of the flames had failed, all hands took to the boats (three in number). Shortly after leaving the ship the boat containing the captain. the stewardess, and several of the crew was seen to go down by those on board the other boats, who were unable to render assistance. After several days' knocking about the two remaining boats parted company, and the one in charge of the second officer reached Tahiti alter suffering considerably from privations and exposure during the twenty days since they had abandoned the ship. The distance traversed was reckoned to be 1200 miles. The chief officer's boat not arriving, was feared to have shared the same fate as the captain’s, but before the Coronet left Tahiti, news reached Tahiti that the chief officer and boat’s crew had safely landed at the Marquesas Islands. The Centaur was built under special survey in 18G9, at East Boston, and was classed A 1 at the American Lloyd’s. With regard to the other vessel which shared the same fate as the Centaur, we learn that her name was the Mogul, a ship of 1365 tons register, belonging also to Messrs J. H. Sears and Co, ot Boston, and commanded by Captain Freeman. She also left Liverpool tor San Francisco with a cargo of coal on the same day as the Centaur. She took lire with 1200 miles of Tahiti, and the fire gaining such hold ot the vessel, the officers and crew were compelled to abandon her and take to the boats. Both boats arrived together safely at Tahiti without parting company, alter undergoing great suffering. The Mogul was a wooden vessel, built at Kennebunk in 1869, and was classed A i in the second grade of the American Lloyd’s. In collecting these particulars we hare been unable to obtain any dates.