SHIPPING.

South Canterbury Times, Volume XV, Issue 2061, 1 November 1879, Page 2

SHIPPING.

POUT OF TIMARU. AEBIVBD. Nil SAILED. Nil VESSELS IN HARBOR. Glimpse, ketch. Ethel, brigantine. Nightingale, brigantine. ' Aberdeen, barque. SUFFERINGS AT SEA. By the Cape Mail bo it German, there arrived two French seamen, part of the barnue Jean d’Arc, of Nantes, which foundered at sea ou Jane 30, ialat. 40 8., lone jg R. She was of 600 tons burden with a general cargo from Marseilles for B «rb A n. Having struck on a sunken reef She sank iu three hours. Captmn La Oasi e and the crew made every effort to k ep the vessel afloat, but all was imvailmg. Ihe crew left the ship in two boats oumhk a strong gale and high sea, taking only a few biscuits and a couple of beakers of water Fight of the crew were in alo g-boat and five in a smaller boat. To row in the heavv sea they lashed oars together, and made a “drogue” to help the boi to tride to the seas more easily. The weather was bi terly cold, and it was with the greatest difficulty the boats could be kept afloat by constant bailing. Alter twodays the small boat capsized ; fortunately, the long boat was to leeward, and by great exertions the five men were picked up, only however, to make the long-boat deeper in the water and shin more water. Two days after the “drogue line” broke and the boat was left to the mercy of the waves but the winds and sea abating, the danger was not so great. A sail was soon afterwards improvised out of the captain s Dlanket, and the boat’s head turned north in the hope of falling in witn passing vessels The daily allowance was not two biscuits and a paunikaii of and What with exp 'Blue to we‘, cold, and want of food, s veral men were frost bitten. After 13 days of such suffering the barque Corsica, of Glasgow,Captain Michel, from Banatoon for Rotterdam, with rice, overhauled them and took all on board. Ten of the less frost-bitten mea recovered. Three were so ill as to have to be lauded at Ascension, where one man had both feet amputated. The others went on to Rotterdam. in the barque. The two men landed at Plymouth ware so far recovered that they were able to take passage from Ascension in the Getmau.—News of the World.