Wreck of a Barque.
(By, Electric Telegraph—Copyrigfit).(Per Press Association), SYDNEY, September 30. The four-masted French barque. - the Adolphe, went ashore at ths Oyster Bank while beinc towed in this morning A heavy southerly is now (2.30 p.m.) blowing, and a tremendous sea is breaking over the vessel. A lifeboat is out trying to rescue the crew.
rp. _,■'■■ IA-TER. lhe crew of the French barque Adolphe were rescued uninjured, though they had a rough experience in being hanled aboard the lifeboat in mountainous seas.
At tho time, of the disaster two tugs were engaged in towing her in, when the line of one broke, and the weight of the vessel in the heavy,gale being too much for tbe other the Adolphe drifted on to the Oyster Bank, whci#fs/We rollers planted her on to the-ribs M the old wrecks of the steamers Wenddnree and Lindus, where she filled and settled down, though the hull remained above water.
The crew refuged till they were rescued. They lest everything.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7923, 1 October 1904, Page 2
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