WRECK OF A STEAMER.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 85, 14 April 1915, Page 5

WRECK OF A STEAMER.

STRUCK A ROCK NEAR STEPHENS ISLAND. Pee Press A ssooiation. Nelson, April 14. Nyberg Bros. (Greymouth) steamer, Bakiura, struck a rock near Stephens Island at five o’clock this morning and sunk. The crew were saved. Stephens Island is in the French Pass, and is connected with D’Urville Island by telephone. The French Pass allows a saving of about forty miles for boats trading between Wellington and Nelson. The clear channel in the pass is only 140 yards wide. Later. The Bald lira’s crew landed from their own boats, Wiggin’s and Brown’s at Station Point, and Hardy’s at- the northern end of D’Urvilleland. It is thought the crew will proceed through the French Pass and catch a Wellington steamer. The Anchor Coy’s. Begulus passed through the Stephens Island passage at 2.30 this morning, when a fresh nor-wester was blowing and the weather was very thick, 'with heavy rains. The steamers Bed Pine and Jane Douglas sank in the vicinity of the present wreck in recent rears.