WRECK AND LOSS OF SIXTY – ONE LIVES.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 57, 5 July 1884, Page 6

WRECK AND LOSS OF SIXTY - ONE LIVES.

St. John's (N.8.), May 23.— The French Senorine, with fifty-three passengers and a crew of nine, sank to the eastward of the Great banks, and all on board perished. She left St. Malo, France, on the 25th of | March, laden with a general cargo, bound to St. Pierre, and succumbed to the gale on the sth of May. St. John's (N.F.), May 24.— The following are the only details obtainable of tho loss of the French brig Senorine -.—The vessel left St. Malo on March Ist, laden with salt, provisions and a general cargo, and was bound to St. Pierre. The ship's company numbered nine men, all told, and fifty-throe passengers. About the 20th of April she was signalled in the drift ico on the eastern edge of the Great bank. A few day 8 after a strong gale arose from the southwest, and with various changes and veering she continued on her way. On the same date, the first week in May, her bows and sides were crushed in by ice, and she sank without giving any warning, carrying down every soul on board. The British clipper schooner Consuelo passed by the scene shortly afterwards, and picked up sufficient debris and general wreckage to identify with certainty both the missing vessel and her actual doom. No further particulars are ascortainable, nor ever will be.