Missing Vessel.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7758, 9 March 1905, Page 4

Missing Vessel.

; FEARED LOSS OF £70,W0 ' WORTH OF FI RS. Nothing lias been h e nrd of the Hudson Bay Company's sailer ftork ; since she left Charlton Island. uwl- ' son Bay. for London, on Sept. 11l last, and grave fears for her .safety are now entertained, said »» F.nglisli pa|ier lasl month. 1 She is a barque ol tons car- ' rying very valuable cargo, consisting : oi over £70,000 worth of furs, this being jjiaiuicnily the whole year s collection from ths company's sel.tli!meius and fur station* in the HudIhere is also ;! n'l'W of some twen- ■ tv hands, as well as several passen- ■ gers. l : nd<rwriters in I.loyds ' were taking a gloomy view of her case recently— 50 guineas per cent, being paid to re-insure her. The Stork is the largest vessel owned by the Hudson Bav Company who have always had a boat of this kind to make the annual expedition for their produce. Singularly enough the Stork was bought to take the place of the Lady Head, which was wrecked under, sin- . gular circumstances last year, on which occasion over £lO/000 worth of furs was lost. The I.ady Head, horn.war,] hound from James Boy, ran on tJasket Shoal two days after leaving, and for liiorv than a week tile captain and crew remained l>y her endeavouring to get her off the reef. Then when she began to go to pieces they took to the boats, and after three days' perilous jaurney in a temperature which was for the greater part of the time In-low zero, they arrived at Moose Factory, one of the inost j.important stations of the Hudson May Company.