VESSEL'S FATE.
OFF WELLINGTON HEADS
CREW'S NARROW ESCAPE
[fir PREBS ASSOCU-TiOM 1
WELLINGTON, This Day. The ketch "iFelicity, 24 tons, under the command' of Captain Anderson, which loft Wellington yesterday morning, bound for Havelock, Pelorus Sound, sank off Pencarrbw ligbthouse, Wellington Heads, during the night. The crow scrambled on to the rock and were rescued by the lighthouse keepers. A north-west gale was blowing at the time. During heavy weather in Cook Strait the little vessel was seen to' be unable to make headway and was .returning to port when the disaster occurred. It was owned by Captain T. Sommerville, of Nelson, and was built there in 1885. Her masts are visiblo but she is breaking up.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 12 September 1910, Page 3
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117VESSEL'S FATE. Horowhenua Chronicle, 12 September 1910, Page 3
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