A Mystery of the Sea.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7705, 6 January 1905, Page 3

A Mystery of the Sea.

DISAPPEARANCE OF A NEW STEAMER, Some trouble is being caused at Homo concerning the loss of a new steamer named Juverna. SKe sfms making a one-day trip from Gourock to Kingstown, and was never heard of again. Ker owner, Mr Hugh Flinn of Liverpool, has published the following statement "At 'the time that the Juverna's boats were picked up off the Calf of Man, a lifebuoy belonging to 11.M.5. Snapper was picked up in the same vicinity. The night on which tho Juverna was making her passage from Gourock to Kingstown was a very dark one, and some of 'his Majesty's ships were cruising in thd Irish Sea without lights. Tho harbourmaster at Port St. Mary,lsle of Jlan, reported to the Admiralty that this lifebuoy had been picked up, <nd asking for a reply, in order to sU where the Snapper w a s at the time the Juverna was lost ; but no reply has been received to the inquiry. It now appears that the Snapper has gone into Sheerness 'dockyard for repairs, and reports having been in collision at Dundee, but no previous report has been made that this ship had been is collision at Dundee*' 4 Mr Flinn is of opinion that the Snapper has been in collision with the Juverna in the Irish Channel, and sank her. The Juverna was a new steamship, built at Liverpool, and engined at Glasgow, and after her official trials she left the Clyde on August 14th with a cargo of coal for Kingstown (Dublin), under the command of Captain McKinlcy, and manned by a crew of eight, men all told. Two lifeboats were picked up ofl the Calf of Man, but nothing that) will throw light gn the fate of the vessel has transpired since that time,