Shipping Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 7, Issue 362, 29 March 1866, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

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AEEITAIS. ,- March 38—lord Ashley, s.s, from Southern Porta 26- schooner, from Auckland 23—Jlahia, cutter, from Wellington . DEPAETGEE3. Ashley, *- ' - 26—Lady Bird, s.s,-for Southern Port* 27 Beautiful Star, s.s., for Auckland ■ - , EXPECTED A&SrVAIiS. Beautiful Star, s.a.; from Auckland Betsy, cutter, from Auckland . Eero, ketch, from Waikrobpu ■ Huntress, p.s., from Wal a - Danish. Beauty, barque, from Gravesend via Nelacn ■ 'Lady -Bird, as., from SouthernPorts—sth ' ' j Lark, schooner, from Auckland—hourly: Bord Ashley, s.s, from Auckland—6th Haggle, brig, from Sydney—daily Baucy Lass, schooner, from Auckland ’ ‘ Bhelburne, barque, from London via Hew Plymouth Success, schooner, from Dunedin :. ■ - , . Taraipine, ketch, from Wairoa ■ Vivid, schooner, Irom Wairoa - EUlah, brigantine, from Auckland V VESSELS IN HABBOBk - Cosmopolite, brig, from Hokitika Kauri, schooner, from Auckland. Lady Bird, schooner, from Wairoa Jlahia, eutter, from Wellington St. Kilda, s.s .from Chatham Island! ■ ■ EHTEEED INWAED3. , txAucn. , ■ 24—Beautiful Star, s.s., 125 tons, Monrick. from Aiick* land, with 26 hhds 20 casks and 40 cases beer/ 8 qri casks brandy, 2 bbds do, 4 qr-casks rum, 20 cases old • tom. 20 do geneva, 1 bale'canvas. Watt, Kennedy, and . Watt; 20 cases old tom, 6 qr-casks rnm, 20 cases 6 ‘ /hhds ale, 60 bags biscuits, P. button 4 pkgs .merchandise, 5 cases stout, 1 8 bags sugar, Heal and Close; ; :40 bags biscuits, Kinross and Co.; 13 cases glass, Williams; 1 bale. Bowman; 3 Ciises necessaries, ' * order; 2 planks, Millet add Lindsay; "8 hhds rum, Commissariat; 7 pkgs hardware, Boylan ; .3 cases . drapery, Eobinson and Co. ; 3 cases coffee, 4do drapery,' Knowles. Badsciigers—HCssrs Brooks (2), - Cuwin, Wdoly, Stuart.—Wfttt; Kennedy, and Wa;t, agents, 26—Lady Bird, g,s., 220 tons, KraefJ, from Auckland, with ' ’ I bale clothing. Officer Commanding ; 1 case' drapery, ‘ Janlsch; 4 bales 3 cases paper; Wood; llpkgs rnonJd- ■ .. ings, BO beams, 3 pkgs sashes. Miller and Lindsay;, 1 . case instruments, Ellison; 1 cask cartheawarg, 1 case, “ ' Chitham, Passengers'—Mrs Ward, "Messrs Jones aud Smith, 4 soldiers 14th Eegt.—V.-Jauisch, agent; '• 26—Lord Ashley," s s.; 233 tons, W6rs?,- commander, from , Wellington, with 1 Are iron, Eathbone; 1 forge back, . X fire iron, Garry ; 1 roll sheet lend. Collector of'cus- ,; toms; 1 case;-Manoy; 1 case,'Ayres*: 10 pain bars, 25 ■-boxes caudles, Kentledge ondCo.; 15 boxes candles; ! , case, Stuart and Co.; 1 box, llahonc; 10 bags salt, 1 box l ease 27 pkgs, Newton, Irviue, and Co.; 5 hhds 2 : qr-casks grass seed, JaniscU; 1 trunk boots, Eeardqh: * 1 box 1 pkge.G.SJ Cooper. Passengers'-Bishop Wil- . Earns, Mrs Pilchers and child, Messrs .Irvine Chapman, Hoime.Lloyd, Ticehurst.—Eoutiodge and Co., agents, J3—Mahia, cutter, 26 tons, Enright, from Wellington, with 1 ’ 15 hhds ale, li tierces tobacco. 64 chests tea, 1 ton •. Balt, 3 casks vinegar, 3do do soda, 20 boxes caudles, j. 20 bags ; rice, 80 bags flour, 6 bundles oakum, 20 Vguhnies sugar, 1 case train oil, 1 cask white lead, ■ Etmtledge and Co.; 40 bags.-rice, SO boxes! candles, Kinross:and.Co.; 9 boxes candles, Stuart and Co.— Kinross and Co., agents.

CtEAEEDOtrTWA'BDS.'' / y JIAKCH. . , . .23-rliOrcl Ashley, 6.5., 298 tons, Worsp, commander, for Auckland, with-original cargo from Southern ports, and Captain and Mrs Cailyon, Miss and Master Carr. Eoutledge and Co., agents. 28—Lady Bird, s.s., 220 tons, Kraeft, for Wellington, with 2 cases 3 hales drapery, 8 ha1e5,(3133 Vos). Janlsch; 'S9 bales (14,716 lbs) wool, Kinross and Co.; 15 bags grass -.I- , seed, Watt,'Kennedy, and Watt; 12 sheep, 3. A’Deane; v I,cask lime juice. Carver. Passengers— Captain a! . and Master Kennedy, Messrs Shepherd , aud Potter) ' V, Jauish, agent. : - * 27—Beautiful Star, 125 tons. Morwick, for Auckland, with • 1000 sheep, Kinross and Co,; 9 pkgs,tobacco, .Commis- • sarist. Passenger: ilt Smith-Watt, Kennedy, aud Watt, agents. ; c '. ■; 'v;: maritime notes. ' I - AEEITAL OF THE SiS. LADY EIED. • The N.Z.S.N. Co.’s ba lady Bird, Captain Kraeft, left Auckland at 5 p.m. on Friday, 23rd March; arrived at Tau- • ranga; at noon on the 24th; left for Napier at 2;30 tto same ; evening; rounded the East Capa at sis o'clock on Sunday morning ; and arrived in’the roadstead late the same night. ■The Lady Bird steamed for Southern Ports about four • p.m, on Monday, the 28thinst. . . . . ; AEIUVALOF THE ECHOOK’ES KATIE I. - The schooner Kauri, Captain Shearer) from Auckland via '’’Wangapoa, arrived here bn Monday, the 26th instant," at 8 a.m. She left Auckland on the Bth March, and arrived it ] Wangapoa on 12th, Took in cargo of timber, and was delalnbd'for four days, owing to heavy sea on the'har. she got away on the 19th. Experienced strong head winds: and sea to East-Cape, which was rounded on the 22nd.: From thence to port had light winds and fine weather, and arrived here as above. ''isakvAi 6t Tits s.s. toed ashley. The F, N.2, .and A.E.M. Co.’s Asi lord Ashley, Captain Worep.’wlfh’the January European Mails, arrived here at 9a.m. on Monday, the 26thlost.- She on the , 21st, immediately .after the arrival of the Tarafua ‘ f arrived! ’at Lyttelton oh the 22nd, hud Wellington on the 24th. Left ■Wellington oh the 25th at half-past 9 a.m:, and arrived here ■ ns above. She steamed for Auckland about noon on Monday, last. . ’. , . , 4 • , ; . . MISCELLANEOUS. ’ . - The brig Maggie, Captain . Clarke, had’ all her cargo on board on the sth instant, and Was to leave Sydney on the -following day. She may, therefore, bo hourly looked ftr. . The fine little-steamer Beautiful Star, Captain Morwick, ’steamed for Auckland on Tuesday afternoon lasi, with a thousand sheep and ono passenger. ...... • , The cutter Mahia, Enright, master, from Wellington, ar- , rived hero yesterday afternoon.’ She brings a full cargo of general merchandise. -i . ;,■ t . ; WRECK OF THE AUSTRALIAN STEAMER LONDON, AND LESS of TWO HUNDRED, and TWENTY *" V '■ L'lt'ESjv;;.:; ' , r-.;; • - {From the HoioeNews, 28tb January.} The month of January, 1860, will be long remembered as ono.of disaster and sorrow. : During the past three weeks . nearly every day has brought tidings of wreck and loss Of Hfe to our ghores. Amidst all these disasters, nothing equals in tragical interest the fate of the London; an, Australian packet yhip, which foundered on Thursday, January 11, in the Bay of Biscay,’ oath the loss' of 220tlves. ’ The tame this fine vessel had acquired; as u passenger ship—partly owing to the /act other last outward passage having ■ been made In itself Calculated toaiepel'all 1 ntoiety on her behalf, even during tbblaAe tempestuous ; weather, and it is beliavcikthat bet owseraand tbOMitd*& ’ writers concerned were least of alFpreparcd for the terri-' bis disaster that has happeoieiftb her. It * a remarkable mam**, that tba London is U» tnl ffcip

belonging to tha famous, house of Mesat* Money- Wigram and '-Sons to which any serious casualty has occurred., in oeuturyls experience, Messrs Wig vn have en wed. a perfect immunity from loss, with the single exception ofthe True Briton, which belonged to a former generation of the firm, and foundered early in the present ccntaryln the same fatal bay. The subjoined narrative ofthe calamitous event, with its attendant circumstances, has been compiled from all available resources:—

The London.whioh has been commanded ever since she was launched from Black wall yard, in 1864, by Captain Martin, an Australian navigator of great experience, left the East India Docks .on . Thursday, the 28th December, and dropping down to Gravesend, sailed thence on Saturday afternoon, the 30th, under charge of a fiver pilot; 'As the night was wild and the wind dead ahead the ship brought up at the Nore, and lay there, during the whole of the, day. There were three.clergymen on board, the Bov. Dr. Woolley, principal of Sydney University,and the Eevs. Messrs. Draper and Kenv, At daybreak .on Monday, January 1, the anchor was weighed, and the ship steamed down Channel, still against a head wind, but making fair way.- While passing outside the Isle'“of Wight the wind increased , to half a gale, and Captain Martin deemed it prudent to put back and lay too for the night in St. Helen’s Beads. On the morning of January 2 the' London proceeded' through the Needles into tbe open Channel, the wind being stilt ahead, but light.- As the ship ran down Channel the wind rose and the sea increased, and a couple of hours afterpassing the Needles the wind blew a gale right ahead with a heavy sea rolling, which continued ail the way to Plymouth, where the ship arrived about noon on Thursday, the 4th .January. , A sad casualty occurred here. A pilot cutter put off a small boat, having on board the pilot and his assistant, to bring the London inside the breakwater. When the boat was about 100 yards from the London a sea capsized her, and both the pilot and his assistant were thrown Into the water. Captain Martin instantly ordered one of his lifeboats to be lowered, and with great • difficulty the assistant pilot was rescued, but the pilot was drowned. The Loudon came to an anchorage inside the breakwater at 1 p.m. on the 4th.’ and during the afternoon took on board those of her first and secondAlass-passengers who: had arranged to join the ship, at, Plymouth. At midnight on Friday, the sth, she proceeded on her voyage, the wea- , ther being at this time calm; with a light wind ahead. She: bad full steam on during the whole of Saturday, the 6th,> and the voyage proceeded very satisfactorily until Sunday, morning, the 7th, when the wind increased, and a head sea gradually rose. During this day the London,passed several ships, and nothing occurred to create the smallest uneasiness in the minds of any ofthe officers of the vessel. During Sunday night the wind increased to a gale and the: sea rose considerably. On the morning of Monday, the Sth, the ship was well clear, of the land, and Captain Martin having ordered the engines to be stopped,' set his topsails- - aud so endeavoured to keep the ship moving slowly ahead.’ At noon on this-day, the wind having somewhat lulled, the .engines were again set’in motion and kept steaming slowly ahead. At’ 3 sum. on Tuesday, the Oth, wldle the captain was still endeavoring to keep the-ship' in her course by means ofthe screw, the violence of the gale carried away atone sweep: the jibboom, the fore topmast, thstopgaUantmast, and the royals. These large spars were not wholly, detached from the ship, but, hanging fast to the stays, swung to and fro with such violence that the crew were wholly unable to secure there. : About t wo hours after the niainroyalmast was blown completely out of its socket and added to the general wreck.: Captain Martin, who had not been 4a bed shvee the previous Sunday night, was . not at all disheartened-up to this moment; but, as the gala continued to increase during the morning, with a sea already running mountains high, the position of the ship was undoubtedly felt to bo one Of some perih Still, as the wind bad somewhat veered, round, the engines were kept steaming easy ahead, and it is.bellsved that at this moment no person on board felt any anxiety for the ultimate safety of the ship. About .3 p.m. on Tuesday, however, a ■ tremendous sea-struck the ship and carried the port life., boat clean away from.the davits. All that evening and through the,succeeding night the wind blew a very heavy ‘gale and the sea ran very high, but the screw was still kept " steaming easy ; ahead. : At- 3 a.m. oh Wednesday, the 10th, Captain Martin sent for Mr GreenhilL the chief engineer,and informed him of his intention to put the ship about and run for Plymouth, aiid he desired that full speed should: - be got up directly. This was immediately doue. In half an hour afterthe ship’s course-had been- altered, she was again struck by a tremendous sea, which carried away the starboard lifeboat, and the same sea stove in the star- • board cutter. At noon cm this day the ship’s position’was lat. 46 48 V., long; 8-7 W. A very heavy cross sea was running, with the wind now dead astern of the ship, which caused her to r .ll heavily. But no danger was even.now anticipated, and all through'the evening of Wedneklay, long after midnight,, the ship continued to steam slowly , ahead, the captain and hia officers remaining steadily at their posts, and the passengers appearing to have full reliance upon the skill of Captain Martin to bring them safely ' to port. At 10-30 p.vn. on Wednesday, thfe ship still rolling deeply in a heavy cross sea, and the wind blowing a whole gale from the south-west a mountain of water fell heavily over the waist of the" ship, and spent its destructive force upon the main hatchway, over the engine-room, completely demolishing.this massive strncthre, measuring 12 feet by 8 feet, and flooding with tons of water this portion of the ■ ship. , instant endeavours to repair the hatchway were made with a promptitude and-vigor commensurate-with the. imminent crisis. Every spare sail .that could be got at, and even blankets aud mattresses from all parts of the ship, were thrown over the aperture; bat each succeeding sea shipped by the vessel tore away the frail-resource of • the moment, and not more than 10 minutes after the hatchway had been destroyed the water had risen above the furnaces and up' to the waists of the engineers and firemen employed in this part of the ship. The iower decks were also; now flooded with the rush, of waters the ship was contimially taking in. The chief engineer remained at his post until the water had risen above his waist, when he went On deck aiid reported that his fires were opt, and his enginee rendered useless. Captain Martin, with calm conviction, remark.ed.thaj, ho.was.»ot surprised; ou the contrary. be had expected such a” result. Finding Ids noble ’ shlpat length little iftbre; than a log on the Water, he ‘ordered hiS raalntopsail to be set, ill the hope of keeping her before the: wind.' This had scarcely been accomplished' when the force of the wind tore the sail Into ribands, with the exception of one corner,' under which the" shlpf lay to throughout the remainder of the night. The donkey en- 1 gine was supplied with steam by a boiler upon deck, and’ all the deck pumps were kept going throughout the night, and the passengers of all classes, now aroused to a sense pf their imminent danger, shared with the’ crew their arduous labors. Notwithstanding every effort, the water stilt gained upon. the. pumps, and the gale continuing at its . height, cross seas with tremendous force were constantly breaking over tbe vessel. The motion of the ship became low andheavy, and she refused to rise to the aiction ofthe waves. At a quarter after 4 o’clock on Thursday morning, January 11, she was struck by a stem spa, which carried away "four of her stem ports, and admitted a flood of waterthrough the breach. From this time all efforts were useless, and at daybreak Captain Martin,-, whose' cool intrepidity had never for a moment forsaken him, entered the cuddy where all classes of the passengers had how taken refuge, and responding to ah universal appeal, .calmly an-, nouneed the cessation of aU human hope.... It is a remarkable fact that this solemn admission, was as solemnly re-, ceived—a resigned silence prevailing .throughout the assembly, broken only at brief intervals by the welßtimed and appropriate exhortations ofthe Kev.ilr Draper, whose spiritual services bad been incessant during the previous 34 hours., At 10 o'clock, the ship still rolling deeply, an attempt wasmade to launch the starboard pinnace; but a sea struck-her Just as she reached the water, and -she sank, leaving,a crew of five men still struggling for 'their liyes. As the ship, was laying-to threar of them managed 1 to scramble up the sidfes of the ship, and the other two were rescued by ropes being thrown to them. ; Alter this the exhausted -crew .appeared indifferent: to ; their, fate, and no further effort was made until 1 o’clock, when, the water haring reached the main chains and the ’ship" ovident fy settling down, the port pinnace was got Over Ufa •hip's side,. Even at this moment the sea. was .so heavy that those of the passspgers who were withhjj reach of the boat appeared jo.prefer the frail shelter ofthe sinking vessel to the obvious dangers of a small boat in ; A raging' sea. At this crisis Captain Martin, always, at banc, addressing Mr Greenhiil, pis chief engineer, -under whose command this particular boat was rated,- said, " There is not miich chance for the boat; there is none fer the ship. Tour duty.tedone/mineis to remain- here. JGet in and take command of the few it will hold.” ' Tbui pi»mpte4, _Jir; .Greenhiil,with hU fellow-engineCtsand some few. others, : mmbertdgonly 19gbuIS, among Whom were'Omy/tUr-ee-aeoood t*tespas»engQre,-qnfttcd the'ahip, *4ttf OnW-a few ler^Fhe* 1 a * >t * wa-. to <mme upon them, waved their ha*dkerelde(kf cheered whew the get about edeaen yard* troni the

•hip, being apparently anxious that lame should live to toll their hapless tale.- -The boatswain, Stedding.of Blackwali, who has left a wtfeand lire children ;• the butcher, from BlaeicwaU, who has left awtfeand faulty j Ham, the cook, a married man, and a very old servant of the owners; the baker (name unknown), and the purser's mate, William Biley; had made up their minds to leave the steamer in the remaining small boat over the had provisioned and launched her; but no sooner were they ready to put off than the foundered ship quickly slid below the waves, and left for a moment an awful gulf, within whose walls of dark, whirling water, they fell with every human being and every article around, and were soon swallowed up. The passengers'were seenwith lifebelts, but probablynone were alive when they came to the surface. The spectacle ■was only to be seen, for in the din of the tempest no cry from the sinking multitude .could be heard, and soon not ,a vestige was visible. As the ship sank it'was see'that all" on-deck were driven forward, not by water, but by a tremendous and overpowering rush of air from below, which, aa it escaped through the deck -as-well as the hatches, impelled ah on deck forward with.vioience, and their dreadful struggle mast have been saajpenaed. It,was remarked that the third officer, who was named Angel, stood to the last to his post at the donkey engine, which was employed in working the pumps, and that his hands were on-the engine even as the vessel disappeared. A compass had been given to the creW of the pinnace by' the captain, and under the directions of King, the men agreed that, whatever might happen, they would sit im- ■ movable except when pulling at the oars. Two workedat each oar, and they ran before the sea. Every nerve was exerted to make the boat withstand the fearful tossings and the strain as she mounted the waves and became surround by the surge. Before daylight, and as the moon rose, the men were overjoyed at descrying a vessel close alongside. They bailed the ship, and wore heard, but as. they could present no light they could not be seen, although they , could .see the ship tacking about for an hour . trying to. And. them. The search was fruitless, and the ship was lost sight of. The boat bad not been rowed dur-. ing the time the ship was sighted, but simply kept away before tne wind until daylight, when no vessel was visible. The men adhered to their, course,- and at 9 o’clock sighted ’ two vessels', hut were prevented from’ making for them by ■the.cross seas. They rowed for one of them, however, for five hours. - When at last they came up to her, they found her to be an Italian barque, the Marianople, Captain Cavassaa. Just as they were approaching the vessel, they were struck by a heavy squall and shipped a sea, so fmt all in the boat gave themselves up tor lost, but only one of (he meu moving ip the boat to bail her. out, and no fresh seas striking her, thefl were enabled to bail her clear, and bring up alongside the barque. A line was thrown to them' and they were-drawn up to the deck, where they-found themselves completely benumbed by lie exposure to whiph they had been subjected. Captain Cavassa, who could ; speak little English, to .whom the men feel grateful to the extremes! extent, used moire means for their recovery and for their comfort than ’Simple humanity would dictate. He had the men stripped, rubbed, clad in fresh warm gar 4 ments, and killed for them a.turkey, besides providing tpa and soup and setting apart for them warm beds. A t that time the ship was ih 44-48 N. Ist. and 7-13 W. long* and - was bound for Cork to Falmouth. They were landed at the . latter port, and proceeded by train to London. -