THE ISLAND WRECK.
■ PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. Received 19,10,7 p.m. Sydney, September 19. | [ The Quirang has arrived with the 1 crew of the Mopnstone, wrecked at ! Ocean Island, where she arri?ed on July 3rd. On the morning of July 26th, when she had almost completed a cargo of 8000 tons of phosphates for Now Zealand, and whilst attempting to pick up her moorings she bumped heavily on a reef at the south end of che island. With the assistance of the i Pacific Island Company's staff all personal effects and the ship's stores wert saved. The cargo was jettisoned, bu the vessel gradually settled down, and 'he same night slipped off the reef and sank in 130 fathoms. The crew were a month on the island before the Q'iirang arrived.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 216, 20 September 1901, Page 3
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129THE ISLAND WRECK. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 216, 20 September 1901, Page 3
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