WRECK OF THE MONGOL.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 211, 11 February 1875, Page 3

WRECK OF THE MONGOL.

The correspondent of the Daily Times supplies the following particulars ot the vvr c ol: the Mongol and the drowning of Captain Flamank, Mrs Flamank, and the chief mate. She started for Yokohama at 10 40 a m , with pilot, and hat! fine weather. The pi 'ot left her just outside Lycemoon Passat 11 30 am. Ataquarter to 12, when in the vicinity of the Nine Pins, ttie sec md officer (Fiy) was on the bridge with the captain, who told him that there would be a rock ahead and asked him to go down to look at the chart to see if he could discover its position. The second officer went down as requested, but could not discover it. He came up and told the captain so. The captain then t ddliim to keep well off the island, and went down to examine the chart himself. He returned to the bridge soon afterwards and said he could not discover the rock; he only saw an island which would be above water He then altered the ship’s course a little more toward the land, and five minutes afterwards she struck. The captain immediately gave orders to sound the pumps, and found that the ship was making water. Believing that the steamer was resting on the rock, orders were given to back the engines with a view to getting her off. It was discovered that she had gone right over the rocks, and the second officer then ordered the man at the wheel to turn the ship’s head round and make for shore, the water by this time being reported to be gaining on the ship forward. Seeing that it was useless to proceed, orders were given to stop the engines, and attempts were made to get the boats out, Tt.e captain and second officer left the bridge, and the mate and surgeon were looking after the captain’s wife, who was an invalid. Two boats were lowered, and a number of the crew made off in them They were filled before they reached the water. Those remaining on board tried to get another boat down, but the water was gaining so much forward and the vessel sinking so rapidly, that it was impossible. The second officer, seeing all was over, jumped overboard and swam from the ship Immediately afterwards the vessel went down. The captain, his wife, and several others were lost with her. While the vessel was sinking a violent explosion took place, from the water coming in contact with the boilers. The boats which made off were away some little distance and after a time came back and picked up the second and third officers, one fireman, and some Chinamen, who were all struggling in the water close together. The vessel at the time she struck, was going about nine knots, with a strong monsoon and heavy swell against her So sudden was the sad catastrophe that she sank within five minutes after she struck The two boats were taken in tow by tb<• Juan, and arrived about five o’clock. The Mongol had a crew of fifty-two. of whom fifteen were lost. The names of the drowned are:—Captain and Mrs Flamank, G iwthorpe, chief officer; Ring, fourth officer; Campbell, second engineer; Smith, fourth engineer; Gentle, boilermaker ; Smith, carpenter ; Jewell, second steward ; S. Bevis, mess steward; Ludlow, Murdock, and Lewis, firemen; Frankenstone and Stone, sailors; and two Chinese.