HOBART TOWN.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 578, 15 February 1851, Page 4

HOBART TOWN.

A shocking accident occurred at the Hobart Town Regatta on the 3rd ultimo. During contest of the first class sailing boats the British Queen was struck by a heavy equal., and carrying a quantity of stone, nig. iron and other shifting ballast, hefore'she could be rounded to, she filled by the stern and sunk. Other boats in the race (particularly the Naufaus and Terror) were close to

and could have rendered assistance. ti. I however, they inhumanly withheld, and 1 drowning of six fellow creatures was’ the sequence. 21 coruuvi o uuu Docq k , i and as several of the crews of these t ■ were convicts, they had been condemn six months’ imprisonment and hard labour. merited as such punishment unquestion ? is, we should have been happy to have ■ it extended to the heartless (free) of those boats, but these were, we itna?i '1 beyond the reach of that summary juristic/' which overtook the ticket and pass-holde The owner of the British Queen, Mr. Petch’ who was sailing her, was drowned. an old and well-known colonist— at one ti-J Governor of lhe Hobart Town Gaol. Hew*,! likewise a builder of one or two vessels tJ Sir George Arthur, a ship of 400 tons’ [J first vessel of such a capacity, being ' eog i structed under his directions at Point.•— Hobart Town Courier. 0 i