FISHING SMACK WRECKED OFF TAPUAE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 125, 28 May 1903, Page 2

FISHING SMACK WRECKED OFF TAPUAE.

A FisniKG smick of 12 tons, hiil'ng tiom Nelso", and bound for a fishing axpadition off the Taraoaki coas 1 -, was, '.otally destroyed on Tuesday off Cpu le,' aot far fivm whero the Giirloah's career came to an end. It appeirs that \ the crew consisted of the marer, named Frede icksoD, a man named Pateisoo, i md aco'her hand, They 1 ft Nthon' on Mocday, 18; h iost., and aft r < x-1 pariencing a cilm for fiVe days, arrivad off the Sugarloavas oa Siturday, bus as a strong N.N.E, wind wis b'.oiriig .hey were uoable to get into th) h»r-| oour, and took shelter on the lee side of the Sugarloav33. WhiWt at anchor' shere the wind shifted, and for some I ime thy had a very rough experi-.uce in thru heavy B3a that was running.' Eventually during the s'orm on Monday night the ancho; liftei, anl the ooat was driven down the cow, fi nl!y j running ashore near the m u h of the' L'apuae river. Fortunitely by the uouisa taken the boat cleared the rocki, and landed high up on the beicb. The' crew got s *fely ashore with their bo- j longings, | Mr. Fredericksoo told a Daily Mews reporter that he and his comp mious ; bad a miraculous escipe. The locality in which the strauding ccjurred is oh. kly studded with rocks, but anj examination oE the course sicered showed that he had t»ken the only i jlear channel for chains around— hed I he kept a yard or two to the right or ' left the boat would mst inevitably) nava struck a rock soon distance ou",' and the chincea are that none of them ' would have be3n Fp .red to tell the tale. As it was ths boat touched nothing until is landed high and dry upon the oeach. The unfortunate spak very high'y of the kind'y treatment they recjivel from Mr. Morris, to whose house they went for shelter in their distress.