MARINE MISHAPS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3759, 7 March 1907, Page 4

MARINE MISHAPS.

An American Ship Founders. Adelaide, March 4. The ship Barcore, from Puget Sound, reports having picked up in lattitude 47 north, longitude 128 west (in the North Pacific), the crew of the American ship Great Admiral. A heavy gale was raging when the mass of wreckage was sighted. It was the after house-top of the Great Admiral. On it were fourteen men and one woman, in a precarious position. The ship was brought as near as was prudent, and with the aid of large quantities of oil a boat succeeded in reaching the wreckage. After many attempts the crew of the boat succeeded in bringing to tbe Barcore all those on the wreckage—the master, the mate, the mate’s wife, and twelve seamen. During a south-east gale the Great Admiral, which was laden with lumber, was found to be making water fast, and was thrown on her beam ends.

The captain ordered that the masts be cut away. The crew then crawled on top of the afterdeckhouse.

The mizzen-mast snapped about Bft above the house, and a tremendous wave swept the vessel and carried off the top part of the house, with the members of the crew who were on it, into the sea.

The cook and steward succumbed during the first night on the wreckage. The rescued people were in a pitiable condition. They had spent two nights and part of two days clinging to the housetop, without food, water, or shelter. Had it not been for the wreckage acting as a breakwater, the terrific sea must hays washed them off. On the morning of December 24th the barque Andrew, bound from the Sandwich Islands to San Francisco, hove in sight. The shipwrecked people were transferred from the Barcore to her, and were landed in San Francisco. The Great Admiral was owned and commanded by Captain Sterling, who valued the ’vessel at ,£25,000. She was uninsured.