The ill-fated Taiaroa.
The Tiinara Herald says :—lhe fol. Jpwinff particulars" of the now ill-fated Taiaroa's first trip should it the present time be read with great interest. Th» Taiaroa left Glasgow on September 18th, 1875; < pat into Hobart on December 3rd to coal. . On the evening ot Nov 3rd, two days after leaving Cape Town, Captain Robert Gilphin, who had been engaged m England to bring her out, died while dining with his brother officers. The command then devolved on Chief Officer Joanness Spiegelthar. Early on the morning of December. lOtb, she stranded on the Old Mao Rocki, a quarter of a mile to the north-west of Dog Island, the accident reuniting from want of knowledge of the coast on the part of Captain Spiegel thar. With the assistance of the s.s Express she was towed off the same day without damage , and arrived at Port Chalmers on the 14th, 4, being docked on the 17th. . ' :'sbe /cam* .-8 out to the order ot the Albion Shipping J Company. For a time she traded between Port Chalmers and Timaru under the agency of Mr Keith Ramsay, and was commanded ty Captain James Stewart; and early m 1876 was purchased by the Union Steam Shipping Company and kept m the same trade under Captain Petersen. Since then she (has mostly bsen engaged m the coastal .trade, bat made one Voyage to Fiji.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1694, 28 April 1886, Page 2
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232The ill-fated Taiaroa. Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1694, 28 April 1886, Page 2
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