GALE AT THE GREAT BARRIER. TOTAL LOSS OF THE CUTTER ROSE.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 370, 22 May 1889, Page 5

GALE AT THE GREAT BARRIER. TOTAL LOSS OF THE CUTTER ROSE.

From the Groab Barrier Island we learn by the s.s. lona that on Wednesday last the well-known Auckland coastal trading cutter Rose was driven ashore at Tryphena Harbour during a fierce gale, and became a total wreck. The Rose, which was a vessel of 25 tons in charge of her owner, Captain Manua Soares, had been to the east side of the island, and loaded a cargo of firewood for Auckland, and early on Tuesday morning ran into Tryphena Harbour for shelter, as the wind was blowingfresh from the S.W. Captain Soares took up a good position in the best anchorage in the harbour. The wind increased in strength during the night till on Wednesday it was blowing a heavy gale. In the forenoon the Ros>e began to drag, and though Capt. Soared and his crew made the most strenuous efforts to save the vessel by running out a kedge with a long line and letting go the second anchor, she steadily drifted till opposite Air Bailey's residence in close proximity to a dangerous, rocky shore. When she was about fifty yards from shore her anchors appaiently held, and fhe remained stationary till low water, and it was hoped she would weather the s o:m, as although a heavy sea was running the cutter had plenty of water under her. Shortly before noon another kedge was run out, and an attempt made to heave the vessel out from her dangerous po&ition, but on a strain beins 11 brought to bear upon the anchors both came home, and the cutter was driven on to the rocky beach, and in half-an-hour was a total wreck. The crew landed in the cutter's boat. All the gear, sails, and ground tackle of the cutter will be saved. The Rose was not insured, and much sympathy is felt lor Captain Soaies in the loss he has sustained. He has been exceptionally unfortunate, for about a year ago the cutter South Carolina, i of which he was owner, foundered in a squall off Tryphena, and he and the crew were saved by Captain Amodeo, of the steamer lona. Captain Soares had purcha&ed the Rose, and spent a considerable sum of money in fitting her out, and had the boat in excellent sea-going order when she went ashore. Great Barrier settlers say the gale which proved so disastrous to the Rose was the heaviest experienced for years. In Port Fitzroy, a thoroughly land-locked bay, the cutter Waterlily dragged her anchor a considerable distance, but was blown back without damage. The ketch Zillah and the scow Waipu, which were lying in Tryphena, were also in considerable danger.