ROMANCE OF THE SEA

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 382, 29 July 1911, Page 5

ROMANCE OF THE SEA

LOSS OF THE I'll KUAN

SURVIVORS' TRIALS

1 Auckland. This Day. i The barque Puritan eprang a leak !on June L'OJh on tbn voyage from Newcastle la San Francisco, during a heavy gale about S(> • t miles from i Tahiti. The water gained rapidly on I (he pumps, and on Jan.' '■','<, when a furious gale was raging, ami the vosac 1 sinking fast, it was cier.ideii to aha' - don her. All bands ware provided with water and provisions, and left the barque in (wo lKia.tr.. The hoalfl kept toother for three days, and en the third night, became separatee'. The boat containing the first, mati , Hatfield, and nine men, disappeared. and has not Hnee been beard of. It is believed to have f-iiinderod with ;nl hands. The second boat, containing Captain Chapman, Collins, the second mate, and ten men, arrived at Tahiti on July l-Jtli. Unfortunately the water ran short during tb,e voyage and the. boat's e.n w subsisted for

eleven days on a sixth of a (tint of water and two 'liscuiis. T'uy landed at Anna Island and reprovisioned II o boat with water and eoroanuls, and prepared to resume the voyage to Tahiti; several preferring safety to risk of (be long pull in a rowing boat., the captain and Collins, one seaman and the cook proceeded alone. When leaving Anna Island, the boat, struck a coral reef and a plank wan stove in, but. the castaways pushed on, rowing and bailing. When three days out. from Anna Isand they sijihlon Tahiti, and fourteen days out, landed at Papite. Col!in;.', one seaman and the cook of the vessel have arrived at Auckland by the Taluue. Captain Chapman proceeds direct to San Francisco.