Wreck at Napier.
NABBOW Ji^OA^Jfi OF GREW.
(BY TELEGKAPH) . ! (UNITED PBBSS ASSOCIATION.) Napier, This Day. : The schooner Transit, 70 tons, Gal« loway master, bound for Lyttelton with a cargo of guano, pot m here on Friday with broken main boom. Sent the broken boom and mainsail ashore, and anchored m the roadstead. A northeast gale sprang op on Monday, increasing yesterday with very high sea. Last night the gale moderated, but the gea still made. The Transit was riding to two anchors. About 2 a.m. both cables parted, and the vessel went ashore on Fetone Beach. As the vessel neared the breakers, the crew of six hands took to>the rigging and all got ashore. One "manwaß thrown to the deck when the vessel struck, and rather badly hart ffe was safely landed. The sea is now going down, but the vessel is a total wreck. • ;-. . . Later. . The cargo was insured, but not the vessel.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 184, 11 July 1883, Page 3
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154Wreck at Napier. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 184, 11 July 1883, Page 3
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