STEAMER WRECKED.
ALL THE GREW SAFE. (Per Press Association.) Nelson, January 10. The Hokitika-owned steamer Jane Douglas, Captain Vendore, was wrecked at 1 a.m. on Saddle Rocks, D’Urville Island. The crew are safe, and are being brought to the French Pass in a launch, and arrive in Nelson to-night by the Patecnu LATER. The Jane Douglas was going along the passage between Stephen and D’Urville Islands, when she struck the Saddle Rocks end on. The crew managed to escape,, hut nothing was saved, as the vessel sank in five minutes. The steamer was owned by Keech and Malloy, Kumara. She was uninsured. Following is the crew:—Captain, Vendore; mate, Ingram; engineer, G. M. Brown; cook, Brooker.; firemen, llcnchon, Young; lamptrimmer, Woolf; sailors, Pcippo and Thompson. It took the crew four hours to reach Port Hardy.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 23, 10 January 1912, Page 6
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134STEAMER WRECKED. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 23, 10 January 1912, Page 6
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