Five Missing When Cargo Ship Sinks

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 26, 1 February 1937, Page 7

Five Missing When Cargo Ship Sinks

NEAB-BY LIGHTHOUSE IGNOBANT Or ACCIDENT United Prase Association— By Electric f Telegraph.—CopyrlKlit. MELBOURNE, JanTSS. The Patrick Line steamer Caradale came into collision with the Union Steam Ship Co.’s steamer Kakariki off Gellibrand pile light early this morning. The Kakariki was sunk in only about six feet of water and her funnel is showing. Five members of the crew are missing. The Caradale, a small interstate freighter, met the Kakariki a fetv yards from Gellibrand light, but the officers of the lighthouse did not set* tlxe collision. A wireless message from the captain of the Caradale to the Director of Navigation, Melbourne, told of the tragedy. The missing men from the Kakariki are:—

Charles Lynch, A. 8., of Sydney. Jack Rodgers, A. 8., of Melbourne. Harry Cofccoxnbo, A. 8., of Melbourne. Dan Linderman, assistant cook (address unknown). Athol Martin, fireman, of Sydney.

Sixteen other members of the crew: of the Kakariki were picked up in the Caradale’s lifeboats and they reached Melbourne at two ’clock in the morning. All the men on the Caradale are safe. The Caradale was holed in the bows above the waterline. A launch has been sent to search in the vicinity and; wireloss messages have been sent to shipping advising masters of the position of the wreck. The Kakariki is a Union Steam Ship cargo boat of 887 gross tonnage and 190 foet long. She was built in 1926 at Selby. Yorkshire, and has been engaged rallying general cargo Tound tho Australian coast. ; WANGANUI MAN SAVES POSSIBLE EXPLOSION Received Sunday, 7 p.m. MELBOURNE, Jan. 31. Able Seaman J. Evans, of the lvalcariki, interviewed, said he heard the warning blasts of tho whistle indicating that something was amiss. He and two others rushed on deck and saw the Caradale only a few yards away. Then came a terrific crash. His comrades who had not heeded tho warning whistle were trapped in tho crushed forecastle.

The Kakariki’s second engineer, James Wilson, of Wanganui, scrambled through the inrush of water and shut off the steam throttlo thus preventing a possible explosion. Ho and several others were whirled round in the water and all finally leapt overboard. Wilson and three others were taken to hospital mainly for observation. A diver to-day recovered tho body of a man aged about 34 who has not yet been identified. There was no sign of the others. The body of Lindemau was washed up at Williamstown this afternoon.