A STARVING CREW.
NEW ZEALAND VESSEL'S PARLOUS PLIGHT. Received 9, 11.21 a.m. Melbourne, July 9. The Orient steamer Britannia fell iu with the barque Mary Moore off Cape Everard yesterday morning. The crew were in sore straits. The vessel reached the promontory when sixteen days out from Kaipara, but then fell in with heavy gales and was uot heard of again for twelve days, when she was spoken by a steamer off Capo Liptrap. Tue Britannia bore down on the vessel, which was Hying a signal of distress, and found the crew practically starving. Breakfast that morning consisted of boiled bran. As the mail steamer approached, a man on the barque held up an infant which was badly in need if sustenance. The second mate of the steamer and three sailors boarded the vessel and a liberal supply of provisions was placed on board.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8153, 10 July 1906, Page 3
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144A STARVING CREW. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8153, 10 July 1906, Page 3
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