PORT ELLIOTT WRECK.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 January 1924, Page 3

PORT ELLIOTT WRECK.

[I)Y Tltl.EC.ltAl’ll—l‘Klt I’UI-'.SS ASSOCIATION.] OKK TO II EBB. G 1 s' I;()|; \p; .| a!l . i i. Tile Bolt: Victor .sailed southwards I'loni Teararoa at -.uiiri-. ibis morning. THE LATEST NEWS. GISBORNE. Jan. I I. Teararoa report- at IthJO a.in., the Bei l Elliot I remains almost ill the same po-ition. An increasing swell about midnigbi can-'-d the stern te ereased during the early hour-. bill after daybreak' the breeze fre-licned. the -well again increasing. With the wind from the pre-cni quarter- [here i--110 shelter for the wreck and seriouilamage i- likely. ’file Tutanekai i- working stoic* at Id;! -1 Cane bill 1- available for quick a-s!-lancc. A party of about twelve remain aboard. Resident - on the beach are availing any call lor help. Selvage operation- have not yet commenced and the quc-iion cl relloe t ing i- -till under c on-iderat ion. GISBORNE, Jan. I I. The Port Eliot lie- in a lit tD■ sandy bay studded with rock- three hundred yard- from high water mark, quite upright end half broadside on to the -ce, Hull m licit mu el I In- ".oiler the! the whole blade of tie' nropellor i- visible. Tile \e-sri -e.'in- fa-1 emid-hips and doe.- not -.".'in to be tiia'-dag '.vale end if the weet her emu ro • inodvrate the "I lerahi's” era •e- pendent tbonkniai be ri'i'loal' d. CP ca-.t0e.a0.;- ,ie-tei - dey. .-re- bivlo mm' tic "reek. A large crowd on ibm b.-aeb anxioii-ly we i clcd the disent barkat ion of the crew. The lir.-l iwo boat- bed no diiliculiy in gening away end the third just mi'-ed a huge roller. A- the liie boats got out they were mei by the Tut anekai’s buitie!i which towed tlcm to the Tutanekai. anchored three quarters of a mile di-tent. Twenty-seven members ol the crew remained aboard the Port Eliot. The wind on Saturday night blew from file north-en-t all dev ve-terdav and eonliniud from (he seme quarter. Two lighlltou-e keeper- Ironi Ka.-t Ceiie with llu-ir knowledge of the Semaphore, tvmlered miieh e-'isleii,"e.