Ship on Fire.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1672, 31 March 1886, Page 2

Ship on Fire.

(P,er B.b. Wairarapa, at the Bluff. ' . (UNITED PEESSASSOCJIATtON.iv. !'" , On^'riday evening last the inhabitants ibf Lorn'e i aW ; a* bur ning ship J a te^nJi^p2 f from shorif/' This turned <jut to ba the American ship named Paul Jones, whibft 'bAilea from Melboiirue that day bound 1 for QalcuttaV' . Bieporta froioar'thosli' pfr' board stats 1 that after leaving WiHiamsr town air went well till about noon, wheh ;; aom« of the. orew noticed a aTacll p£ amokt, and thought, it was the captain smoking m his cabin ; but the increase of smoke dispelled such an assumption, tf&a theiOuahecLto the; oap|ain^>abinV Ui all* was fight the**/ then r opened the lazarette hatch, when the ship was immediatoly; enveloped m clouds of smoke, which issued from the spajce balow. Capta[n Winn behaved with great coolnoss~and'iutrepidity, He' t»rdered the pnmpa to be rigged and botf' \ett us(»d. ;ThV boats rgady^ and provisioned, and immediately the' pumps and bucketa were set at work. Th» ydlume-cFßrnoko Indreafed rapidly, despite the exertions of the captain, officer*, and;cr«nr. - Soon the. flaipear-4>urat: , forth, enveloping the masjtsf bu^ipt till tfiexa^pn^deek. .w^wltad^ ,and th> poop swayed beneath their feet did they ' entertain the thought of giving up the contest. At last when the heat became bo intense that it was impossible I to abate the 'fire, the captain * ordered th»< ,uien % to leaye ; the ship, ;he,him,Btlt I being the last to l«aye her. The Antiope, sees ing* the flames naade for tue ship, and rsscpedjther'mon from the. Jjoats. . Thi) Steamer Liguria also iiiade r f^'r the' aliip, and sent boats to see if any persons werji. Antiope, and'hav* since been brought to Melbourne. The Government steamer Despatch' was senta'way eaily v on Satur-' day morninc' m order to sink tha reasel^ or otherwise reuioVe htr.frpmiine lours* 6t nayigatio.uJ It was fo^ii^^shS:, had loe^wMer^Jedige. She gradually filled with waUr aud dis> •pptftrea.