MARINE DISASTERS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8743, 18 February 1907, Page 2

MARINE DISASTERS.

Press Association —Copyright. London, February 16. The Leith steamer Movaria, with | 19 hands, is believed to have foun j dered during a hurricane in the North Sea. A Tyne steamer is also supposed to have met the same fate. London, February 17. The new steamer Moruya, 500 tons burden bound from Liverpool to Sydney, and owned by the Illawarra Company, went ashore in a fog, on Friday night, near Port Albert. The crew landed, the vessel being high and dry at low water. She floated again, however, yesterday afternoon, apparently uninjured, and proceeded on her voyage. Press Association. Dunedin, February 17. The French barque Marguerite Miraband is ashore on the Akatore beach, near Milton. The captain and crew of 34 arc safe, but the ship is much battered. The vessel was from Rochelle to Tahiti. She has been in a fog for nine days, with the sea very rough, Auckland, February 18. A fishing boat, belonging to Andrews, of Auckland, was washed ashore at Whangamumu. It is supposed it was caught in the easterly gale and that the crew of two Greeks, John Palmer and John Amox, were drowned in attempting to put ashore on the dingey. A Strange Miscalculation. ■ Dunedin, February 10. The Margaret Miraband, ashere at Akatore beach, near Milton, is a French steel barque of 2103 tons gross, built at Nantes in 1900. The vessel had been enveloped in fog for nine days, rendering it impossible for Captain Tattuin to take observations. Seemingly the skipper and crew had no idea that they were near the New Zealand coast, and it is stated that the former was under the impression the vessel must have struck at some point on the Australian coast, whereas the barque was stranded on the beach about four miles from the mouth of the Tokomairiro Fiver. She was about 100 yards out from the shore with the bowpointing directly landwards. The first mate went ashore on a line yesterday morning, but the others used boats, the whole crew, numbering 24 including the captain, reaching land safely. The Margaret Miraband was hound from Lv Kochclle, France, to Tahiti, and carried 1000 tons of coal and 500 tons of general cargo. All the crew are Frenchmen, the first mate alone having any acquaintance with the English language.