THE LOSS OF THE CALYPSO.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1963, 9 June 1880, Page 3

THE LOSS OF THE CALYPSO.

[PBB PBBBB ASSOCIATION BPK«IAL WIBB.] DUNEDIN, Jane 8.

With referenoe to the loss of the Oalypso, Messrs Murray, Roberta, and Company have received advices from their London agents, under date May 22nd, as follows : —" Since ■closing our other advices we have learnt that part of the cargo has been settled as a total loss. We have not yet quite decided what course to adopt, but will probably take 75 per cent, from the insurance companies, and wait the realisation of the cargo before obtaining a final settlement." The following is an extract from a letter received by Messrs Dalgety, Nicholls and Co., under date London, April 22nd:—" The Calypso arrived all well after a good passage, at the mouth of the Thames, on the 13th instant, but was anohored in the Princes Channel, and early on the 14th ■was run into and sunk by an inward bound steamer. All hands and passengers were saved. Some of the cargo has been recovered by the divers, but it is doubtful if the ship herself can be saved." Another correspondent writes that it was a fine clear night, and both the ship and her lights were plainly seen, so that it is difficult to account for such prodigious stupidityand recklessness on the part of those in charge of the inward bound steamer. The Calypso lies sunk in fifty feet of water, and divers are at present at work saving what they can get of the cargo, but as yet they have made very little progress. Attempts may be made to raiso the ship, but their success is very doubtful. In conclusion the writer says that it is a consoling reflection that neither Captain Hird nor anybody on board the ship can be in any way blamed. All lives were saved, though both the crew and passengers lost their effects. The vessel which ran into the Calypso is a small steamer called the Hawk, valued at £SOOO. A later telegram says information was received a short time ago that the cargo from this vessel had, to a considerable extent, been saved, though, of course, in a damaged condition, and that the net loss would not exceed 50 per cent, to the underwriters.