AN ABANDONED SHIP.
BEING TOWED TO POBT. PBB PBESS ASSOCIATION, Sydney, January 15. The abandoned vessel oil' Wilson's Promontory is the Port Patrick, bound from Algoa Bay to Received 18. 10JOp.tr-. Sydney. J.wtr'ry 15. The Champion, sf.er standing by all night, succeeded in putting three men aboard the Port Patrick. Slipping the anchors, a steit was made this afternoon to tow the vessel to Melbourne. So far as is known, the Patrick is undsimagf d
The actual facts ef the abandonment will rot be. known till the arrival of the Abergeldie with the crew, but the captain of the steamer Woolowra, | which arrivfd to-day, supp'ies a pro-J bable explanation. After lea ing Mel-1 bourdo tha Woolowra encountered a fierce and sudden storm. The Patrick,! which was then in the vicinity of Wilson's Promontary, was evidently caught napping and driven into a dangerous posi'i'n. Shn was Feen to be abandoned. All pails were set, bit most of •hem were in ribbons. The Pat'ick was going to Newcastle to load coal for South America, in charge of Captain Gulloway.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 13, 16 January 1902, Page 3
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177AN ABANDONED SHIP. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 13, 16 January 1902, Page 3
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