LOSS OF THE STEAMER NELSON.
SINKS IN A QUARTEIt OF AN HOUR. A telegram from Low Heads to the Melbourne papers states that the steamer Nelson, from Melbourne to Launceston, while passing through the eastern channel by the Porpoise Rock, Georgetown, at midnight, and when abreast of the white buoy, struck the rock amidships, and the strong ebb tide swung her round on to the south side of the rock, where sho remained with a heavy list to port, till the flood tide set in and turned her bows a few points to the south, the stem still hanging on; but, filling with water, tho bulkheads gave way, and in a quarter of an hour she sank in deep water south of the rock. All hands were got ashore in tho boats, with kits, and are proceeding tp Launceston. It is understood that Captain Carrington, master of the Nelson, attributes the disaster to his vessel to the white buoy on tho east side of tho rock boiug considerably out of position. The vessel sank in 130 fathoms of water. The ship’s papers were saved, bub Captain CarrjngtonV charts, certificates, and valuables were lost. There are ho signs of the sunken steamer.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VIII, Issue 490, 19 July 1890, Page 5
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201LOSS OF THE STEAMER NELSON. Te Aroha News, Volume VIII, Issue 490, 19 July 1890, Page 5
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