SHIPPING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4127, 12 June 1874, Page 2

SHIPPING.

POUT Ol*’ WELLINGTON. Hum Watek. —2.so a.m. : 3.20 r.M. sailed. Jrse 11.— Wellington, s.s., *202 tons, M. Carey, for the Southern ports, Passengers—Saloon: Mr. Darby, Mr. and Mrs. .McCarthy. Messrs. Drake and Travers : steerage ; I. i‘. S. Ledger, agent. CLEARED OUT. Bencleugh, schooner. 05 tons, IV. Fromus, for Hokitika. with twenty-live pipes. No passengers. G. Thomas, agent. EXPORTS. Wellington, s.s., to Lvtteltou; 2 casks oil, 50 telegraph poles. 2 pkgs leather, 2 cases. Ido drapery. To Dunedin ; 3 pkgs leather. 3 cases, S empties, 20 kegs. EXPECTED ARRIVALS. Melbourne, via the Southern Pouts. —Albion, this morning, early. Melboubxe. —Ashburton,via Geographeßay, \> .A.; called 12th M.av, Sydney.—H.M.S. Challenger. Auckland. —H.M.S. Blanche ; his Excellency a yacht Blanche. Adelaide, —Kangaroo ; sailed 20th May. London'. —Weymouth, ship, sailed 20th March ; Waikato, ship ; sailed 18th March. Wasoanui.--Stormbird, s.s., this morning, early. Foxton. —Napier, this morning. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Mr.Lr.ouuNK, via West Coast.—Albion, s.s, 12ch June. * , . ... Newcastle. McCallum More, ship, daily; Heversham, barque, daily. Sydney.—La Rogue, ship, 21st June. London.- Wennington. ship. Lyttelton. —Golden Sea, ship, daily. Taranaki.— Paterson, p.s., this evening. Wanuanui. —Stormbird, this evening.

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PORT CHALMERS. Juno 11.—Sailed : Phwbe, for Lyttelton, at 4 p.m. LYTTELTON. June 11. Cleared; Portland and China, for Sydney; Emerald, for Wanganui. The elements vesterdav quits puzzled the weatherwise. The S.E. gale with thick weather which had been blowing all Wednesdav, fell off to almost a complete calm in the evening, and during the night hardly a breath of wind was felt. Daylight, however, brought with it a few premonitory gusts, which put seamen on the alert ; and as the morning advanced the wind became more and more boisterous, and the squalls of rain thicker and thicker. A heavy mist and driving showers obscured the entrance to the harbor, and prevented the Albion from putting in an appearance. Late in the afternoon there were some signs of the sky again clearing, but it continued to blow strong with occasional heavy showers far into the night, and it is not likely to clear up before midday. , , t The steamer Albion, which was expected to arrive alongside the wharf about nine o’clock yesterday morning, had not turned up at a late hour last night. The wind was fair when she left, and has continued so, but it brought up along with it such thick and dirtv weather, that it was not expected the steamer would be able to make the entrance of the harbor, or that Captain Underwood would consider it desirable to make the attempt. The whereabouts of the Albion during the storm, it was, of course, impossible to tell last night, as no craft of any kind entered the harbor vesterday, but she hrd probably made the Strait in the morning, and finding a thick fog prevailing about tills coast, had decided, as has occurred not seldom before, to heave to until the weather cleared up a bit. With the first slant, the Albion would soon be on her way np the channel. She may be looked for this fore* noon. , . , , The small steamers Manawatu, Stormbird, and Napier, which were all due yesterday—the two former from 'Wanganui, and the latter from Foxton—were of course unable to make the entrance yesterday. It is probable they took shelter somewhere along the coast when the gale first sprang up, and are waiting snugly until they get a slant for the harbor. The steamer Ladybird, which was to have left for the Northern ports yesterday evening, is postponed until to-day. The departure of the Paterson for Taranaki, is also postponed until to-day. She was engaged all day vesterdav in taking In some of the piles brought by the James Ilannell; but the cumhrousness of these articles, and the awkward position in which the steamer was lying, made it a work of great difficulty and time to get them on board. She has still some more to take in before leaving. The steamer 'Wellington left the wharf at noon vesterday, and steamed out in the teeth of the gale. There would probably be a very unpleasant swell just outside the Heads and in the narrows, and it is not unlikely she may have anchored inside. The schooner Benclugh cleared yesterday for Hokitika with a cargo of pipes, but was unable to proceed to sea from the violence of the weather. The port light at the signal station has been fitted with gas in lieu of kerosene, and it is expected that the change will be advantageous to vessels, as the light thereby secured will be far more brilliant. At present the'fittings are more experimental than otherwise, but if the new light answers as well as is expected gas will be permanently laid on.— West Coast Times, June 3. Ak rival of the Clio from Noumea. — The Clio arrived at Auckland on June 3, after a good passage of seven days from Noumea. At Norfolk Island, in Landing the passengers in one of the island boats she was capsized in the surf, and the people were fully a quarter of an hour in the water before being rescued. Captain Jackson, who was in the boat at the time of the accident, had wiselv taken the precaution to Lash all the mail bags to the th warts of the boat, consequently the whole of the mail was saved, although, of course, much damaged by the water. Miss Mary Buffet had her clothes caught somewhere in the boat, and was some minutes under water when rescued and brought to the surface in a drowning condition, being almost insensible ; her father being one of the boat’s crew at the time. The owner and crew of the schooner Jessie arrived in Noumea a few days before the Clio left, having been picked up in their boat (in which they bad been five days) by a French man-of-war ; the vessel having foundered off the Isle of Pines. —Southern Cross. Launch of a New Steamer.— A new screw steamer, belonging to Mr. John Lamb, of Kiverhead, which has been constructed to his order, has been Launched from Mr. Ross’s shipyard. Freeman’s Bay. The vessel on being launched was christened the “Scotchman” by Miss Sarah Lamb, a daughter of the owner. The dimensions of the vessel are as follows: —Length on keel, G4ft. ; length overall, 70ft. ; beam, 10ft. She is expected to carry GO tons of cargo on a draught of not more than 4ft. Gin. The Scotchman has been constructed on a model supplied by Mr. David Gough, and is exactly after the style of the cargo boats out of Glasgow. She is strong and substantially built, the timber used in her construction being all heart of kauri, obtained at Riverhead. The Scotchman, says tiie Southern Cro is to be rigged as a fore-and-aft schooner, and it is expected that she will be ready to enter the trade for which she is designed, viz., that between Auckland and Riverhead, in about three weeks’ time. MORE WRECKS IN THE ATLANTIC. From the New York journals to hand we compile the following particulars of the loss of two large transatlantic steamships, the Europe and the Nederland : TOTAL LOSS OF THE EUROPE. The Europe was one of the French line of American steamers, and ran in conjunction with the Villc du Havre and the Amcrique, the last-mentioned of which was lately lost on the coast of France on her first return voyage across the Atlantic. The Europe sailed from Havre in the end of March, and five days afterwards she was found to be in a sinking state. The leak appeared to be in the engine-room, no proper pumps were available, the water gradually increased, until the tires were extinguished, and there was about twelve feet of water in the engine-room. The Europe had on board a large number of passengers, the number of persons on board, including the crew, being four hundred. Her officers and crew were French. While she was in this state, the National Company’s steamship Greece, bound from Liverpool to New York, hove in sight, and when signalled boro down upon the disabled vessel. Captain Lemaitre, with all his passengers, officers, and crew went on board the Greece, letting their eight boats drift away. While the ships were lying close by each other, Mr. Buck, the chief officer of tho Greece, examined the Europe, and found that though the water was rising steadily though slowly jn the engine compartment, ail the other compartments were dry. It was found that though the Europe had been almost left to herself during tho night, tho water had not increased more than two feet. Captain Lemaitre says he was prevented by Cajrtain Thomas, of the Greece, from returning to his own vessel, but, on tho other hand, it is said that none of the French crew, officers, or men, showed the slightest desire to leave the Greece. When day dawned, Mr. Buck, an officer of the Greece, and a volunteer crew of twenty men went on board the Europe to attempt to sail her to Liverpool, and immediately got canvas on the vessel and headed iter for the English channel, while tho Greece went on to New- York, For two days the prize crew struggled to get tho water down, and they found a pump stowed away in the forward part of tho ship which they rigged up, but still the water gained, and threatened, through the motion of tho vessel to burst through the bulkheads. Two days after parting from the Greece, the Europe sighted the National Company's steamer Egypt. By this time water had appeared in one of the cargo departments. Mr. Buck nays: —“ On sighting tho Egypt and communicating with Captain Grogan we consulted him as to tho difficulties and possibilities of the case. There was every indication of tho advent of a south-west gale. The water was rising in tho ship and she was straining at her bulkcad from tho weight of the water, which rose eighteen feet in the engine room and stoke hole. Captain Grogan consented to tow tho Europe, and It was hoped that she would be brought into port in that way, but the hawser broke. The barometer was falling and tho Europe on account of tho weight of the water in her, was becoming unmanageable. With things in this position. Captain Grogan signalled for all hands to come on the Egypt." Mr. Buck “obeyed this order, though reluctantly, as in the face of it he could not personally take the responsibility of risking tho lives of tho volunteer crew, with such a craft in a rising storm.", lie is “sure he could have saved tho Europe If she had been a properly equ'ppod vessel; but tho French pumps were wretchedly inefficient. It was only after considerable search proper Implements were found and the deck pump was discovered stowed away in tho fore peak. With this the water was greatly reduced in tho cargo comparment." The Europe was not seen again, and probably < foundered after being abandoned for the second time. Tho ship was one of the finest of the fleet owned by tho French Transatlantic Company, and was considered to bo a fine, seaworthy vessel and well found in every respect, .She was lengthened last year at Newcastlo-on-Tyno, England, and altered from a sidowheel steamer to a propeller. Her tonnage was 4,G00 ; length, 420 feet; breadth of beam, 44 feet

STRANDING OF THE NEDERLAND. A telegram from’ Atlantic City, New Jersey, dated 17th April, says that a steamer, afterwards ascertained to 1)0 the Nederland, was seen ashore among the breakers onjßrigantine Shoals, at daylight on the 10th, after one of the wildest nights of storm ever remembered on that coast. A lifeboat put off, but could make no headway, though manned by fourteen experienced oarsmen, and was driven. Tho storm continued all night and all next day, and in spite of the efforts of several wrecking steam-tugs, powerful, and built for stormy weather, tho Nederland continued to drift higher up on the shoals. When communication was had with tho vessel, it was found that Captain James—a Frenchman—had mistaken Absecum light for that of > Cape llenlopen, and supposed that the flash .of Little Egg Harbor was the Hash beacon of Capo May. Hence he suddenly became stranded upon Brigantine Shoals, and lost at once his rudder. He ran aground at 8 o’clock in the evening. He signalled all night long, sending up rockets and burning blue lights; but the signals were unanswered from the shore. Next morning. at about G o’clock, the largo ship was seen, and assistance set out for her. She was found lying upon the shoals, with her head standing east-south-east. When aid reached her from Atlantic City, the crew of the Nederland, consisting of eighty-five men, were hastily and indiscriminately throwing overboard her cargo. Tho Nederland belongs to ft new line recently established between Antwerp and Philadelphia, in furtherance of the policy of tho present Iving of Belgium, to establish commerce between this country and his own. Happily the Nederland has no passengers, and although drifting helplessly on a most dangerous coast, without wheel or rudder, there are hopes the vessel may bo saved. The Nederland was on her voyage from Antwerp via Liverpool, for 1 hiladelphia. Sho had a large and valuable cargo on board. Tho Brigantine Shoals are known as tho most dangerous part of the New Jersey Coast. Tho Nederland was a brig-rigged iron screw steamship, owned by the International Steamship Company, hod Star line, but making one with the American Steamship Company, which runs to Liverpool, and is owned by the Pennsylvania Company, The Nederland is 1 819 tons register, 2.530 tons gross, has three docks, and a draft of 21ft. She was built at Jarrow-ou-Tyne, England, ami was launched June 1,1573. The Nederland was intended to make regular passages between Antwerp and New York, though of late it has been decided that tho vessels of the line shall alternate with this port, the Cybele being the first to sail, ibis was the first regular line established between this country and Antwerp. The vessels of the line are malnlv intended for freight, though they accommodate 200 steerage passengers. The cargo of the Nederland consists mainly of Belgian glass and railroad iron and steel. The voyage of the Nederland was a peculiarly unfortunate one. She left Antwerp originally in tho latter part of February, and had on board' 200 steerage passengers. Being several days out, she encountered a hurricane and pub back to Queenstown in an almost disabled condition, Here she discharged her passengers, which were brought on by tho Indiana, of the American line, while the Nederland went on to Liverpool for repairs. Here she remained about one month, and started on the present trip March 28, She took no passengers on this trip, and was nineteen days out and four days overdue when the accident happened, which may prove fatal to her further existence.