STORY OF THE SEA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 21 June 1907, Page 3

STORY OF THE SEA.

SHIP ABANDONED AND CREW TAKE TO BOATS. Per Press Association. ri,„ v , , AuciJam: ,lur> 20 Ihe Nukualola correspondent of .-;•..• ifea'u sends the frliowing graphic <Hrv ■••jJiasM an.hr date June 10 "On Sunday afternoon, iky 20, there came into harbor a ship's life-boat low in the water, for she was leaking badly, containing Captain Christensen, his w ife and eight of the crew of the Norweirian uarquc Albania, which had l>een knocked about in a heavy gale and had ~.«•,,,. a leak, and had been abandoned b'v h'/r of e Toi Ut m mUeS t0 thc wutlw.-ira

The distressed voyagers were glad fa hnibs afte, a voyage of nine days in fh, we?eoKT S W, ' f " "*" S0 * m { ™ te ca,ri I / l ' X,> T l,rc tl,at «*« haJ tr Z £'"l f ™» ih - '™t and wheel™ "P tte wharf on a truck On learning from the captain lint ('„ hers of tj, t . crew M-ere still in nnotW " h ' PS on the ocean h boatf' 1 , c J oy 'T mmi "«P«tc««l t«" "oats :,i grart . h 01 • jvard. ™, of the Wa„/ of CgnUta „ 1 the other to the westward. The east ward party, under the command of Nairn Iti w M , ? w P" 01 ' ramo "cross the U»t just after dark. The shipwreck ,1 manners left for Sydney en r<n te o : Way by the Atua on June 2.