THE DISCOVERY OF AN OLD WRECK.
[from THE OTAGO TIMES.] Mr. William Pocherty, late of Hokitika, aiul now of Jackson’s Bay, writes to Captain Turnbull to say that while travelling along the coast to Cascade Point, he came across the wreck of what seems to have been a full-rigged ship. He saw two of her lower masts dressed at the ends to step into a keelson. He also saw some of her spars, which he
thinks were topmasts or top-gallant masts, but they were much thinned down by the action of the surf, and the beach for a considerable length is strewed with the fragments of the wreck. The ill-fated ship had evidently been built of cedar. The vessel must have been wrecked off the Point, because no wreckage is found anywhere within four miles North of it. Very large portions must be sanded up, for her destruction evidently happened many years ago. “ When one sees,” says Mr Dochorty, “ the wreck of a ship on the sea shore under such circumstances, one feels deeply curious to know something more about her,” and hence he draws the attention of Captain Turnbull to the matter.
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Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 190, 3 February 1877, Page 2
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193THE DISCOVERY OF AN OLD WRECK. Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 190, 3 February 1877, Page 2
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