WRECK OF THE BRAZOS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 384, 13 July 1889, Page 6

WRECK OF THE BRAZOS.

Captain Edgett, his wife, and' a portion - " the crew of the wrecked barque Brazos arrived in Brisbane by the steamer .Glan worthat an early hour last- Sunday week. The captain states that the barque left Newcastle for Hong Kong on 30th .May, with! coal. Fine weather was experienced ioc -a week after leaving port, but on Friday, 7th inst., when goin#- at^the rate' qf four or five knots an horn-, the vessel struck a reef not, indicated on the chart about 500 miles ' north "- east of Sandy Cape. • The sea was .smooth, and there was no wash near the reef, which, however, projected above the water's surface. The vessel remained hard and fast on'the reef all night making water slowly. The crew, workedhard to get her off, but she seems to have got into an opening just large enough for her, and when the morning came it wag found ithat she was almost completely surrounded by the reel. Everything that could be. done to get the barque afloat was tried, and at last success seemed about to crown their efforts, but the bilges filled' with water, and in a very short time ie was. found the vessel was hopelessly lost. The next couple of days was spent in fitting out and provisioning boats, and at eight o'clock on , Tuesday night, the* 11th insb., two boats left the ship, steering a course for Queensland; -The first and larger boat wag - jq\-;cHa%f&Vbf Captain Edgett ; the second bbjai;';:RjinfcH r was nob so heavily freighted , as the cap,-* tain's, was in charge 6f- the 1 chief officer," Mr.Sfcacfr, and with him were J> Burns, J. Brolg, Smith-, Peter-Lawreuson, A-.B.'s, a'n'd , the ship's carpenter, whoseMiame , is un-" 1 known. The boats .kept albbhe first night and the;. next d&y,; -but Votr Thursday morning the mate's boat was ' out of sight of the .captain's.- s .Up to this time the Weather remained fine and the wind fairly favourable, *J?ut . on Friday night, the 14th* Tune, a heTavy ' sea was met with, considerable wafer was shipped and the positsdn< l of the voyagers , became rather serious:* AlLworked with' a'" will in keeping the bop,t free from^-waten Although ttie sea was rdugh all day'Satur-,, day, the captain was able 1 craft tolerably free from danger. -On -Saturday night fail weather was again* experienced, and from then till Tuesday night, when Sandy Cape light was- made-, .the -weather caused no further anxiety. " After sighting^ the Cape, the captain made a course "folWoody Island, and arrived there oh Thursday afternoon about 5 o'clock. On Friday morning the party boarded the Glanworth and went on to Brisbane. The party are all in excellent health now, their only suffering having been caused by continued exposure and inability to move about. The boat was. well provisioned. Questioned about the other boat, - the captain said he had felt little or no anxiety for it, as she was a good sea boat and^not so heavily laden "as the one he travelled in. It was, therefore, probable that the mate and his companions -would arrive safely in the course of a few days. The captain is the largest sufferer by the loss of his vessel, his interest in the ship being considerable. The crew also suffered the loss of their outfits.

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