Five Hundred Tons of Tea Damaged.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 293, 25 August 1888, Page 3

Five Hundred Tons of Tea Damaged.

Intelligence reached Sydney that the steamer Angers, from Foochow bound to Sydney with 5,000 tons of tea under hatches, had gone ashore on Corkburn lleof, in Torres Straits. The vessel appears to havo struck heavily, tor she is reported to be making water in hor fore compartment, and ! 500 tons of tea have been damaged. The captain believes that he can save the ship and balance of cargo with proper pumping gear, and arrangements are being made to forward the necessary appliances from Townsville. The Angers left Foochow on July 22nd and was at Thursday Island on August 9th. The vessel is under charter to the E. and A. Company. The local agents for the E. and A. Company, Messrs Gibbs, ."Bright and Co., received the following telegram from their Brisbane house: — "Captain wires from Cookto*n : 'Angers ashore Cockburn Reef. Five hundred tons lea damaged; ship making water fore' compartment. Believe can save ship, balance cargo, with proper centrifugal pump«, which Towns■\ille agents are arranging to forward.' " The Biisbane correspondent of the "Tolegraph" wires : "The steamer Victoria, from Burketown, arrived at Cooktown to-day. She reports that the China steamer Angers, bound from Hong-kong and Foochow to Sydney, is ashore on Cockburn lleef, about 300 miles north of Cooktown. Her fore compartment is full ot \ water, and she wished to be reported. The vessel has a cargo of the now season's tea, a considerable portion of which is damaged. The steamer Ganges, bound from Sydney for Calcutta with horses, grounded on the same reef two years ago." The Angers is an iron screw steamer, with a net legister of 2,077 tons and a gror<& measui'ement of 3,185 tons. She was built at Hull in 1882 and is owned by Messrs Angier Brothers, of London. Her dimensions are : — Length, 320t0. ; beam, 40ft. ; depth ol hold, 28ft lin. The vessel has engines of 300 horse-powev nominal.