BARQUE RAMMED

Hokitika Guardian, 4 July 1932, Page 5

BARQUE RAMMED

CRAFT -SINKS

ELEVEN MEN DROWNED

(United Press' Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) ' ,! - jujy r i. Those drowned Finns i The only Englishman .aboard' was saved,. He is -8, ThePhald,. who says that after sighting theFastwt -Light nt «ty«a ■in the night 'he heavcf n siren blowing,' rod tho -members of the crew were called on deck, a» a'collision was imminent, -but not all wore able to respond in time. Immediately afterwards there was a terrific crash 'in the forepart of the -hip, which dived pose first in four minutes. Apparently the stem was cut off. -SURVIVORS TELL -STORY. > ' ' QUEENSTOWN, July 1. The, survivors of the barque Melbourne agree that the weather was rle r when the codi-slon occurred. Some! were in the water for an -hour before they -were rescued. The Melbourne, of 2961 tons gross register, sailed three months ago from Fort Victoria, Australia, with a cargo of wheat for Britain. Th e vessel, which was built at Port Glasgow in 1892, <be,’ongs to Captain Gystaf-" Eriksony a Finn, who ,i-s the- only man, in the; world to-day who is able to operate -a> large fleet of square-rigged -ships and;make them pay. His fleet, which num-i bers thirty vessels, contains -all the. big sailing ships left in the world. Twenty r one of his sailing ships, including-.sucJu famous ve;;sc.'3 rs the , Herzogin Oecilie,' the Archibald Russel, the WinfeGiude, Lawhill and the Olivebank . (which re-, centiy visited Auckland), loaded at Australian ports this, year. ~ [■; ce At her last inspection, at Melbou.rn.?j~ in December, 1929, the Melbourne was. classed 100 A 1 at Lloyds. Her at the end of last year, was Captain T. -Schutt.