WRECK IN AUCKLAND HARBOR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 22 July 1907, Page 2

WRECK IN AUCKLAND HARBOR.

Per Press Association. Auckland, July 30, The. scow Flora sank off Devonport early this morning. It is believed three of her crew were drowned.

The cutter Flora was owned by Mr. J. J. Craig, and was engaged in conveying shingle from Waiheke to Auckland. She sank on a sandspit at Devonport this morning about 3.15. Constable Berry and Nightwatchman Hamilton heard shrieks coming from the harbor. It was blowing hard, with an easterly gale at the time, with fierce squalls of sea so heavy that it was Impossible to launch a lwat to go to their assistance. Cries continued till 8.85, when thoy suddenly ceased. An hour later the steamer Kuru came over from Auckland and steamed in the direction whence the cries came, and found the topmast above water, but no sign of the crew, who had been wash-. cd away when the cutter sank and went down in 20 feet of water. Had she been 100 yards further out she would have grounded with her deck above water, and the crew would have been perfectly safe. Michael Sullivan was in charge of the cutter, assisted by Thomas Clarke and another casual hand. An,r'ili-;.-0, Tulv 21. Nothing further has transpired concerning the wreck of the cutter Flora at Devonport early yesterday morning, bwhich Richard Sullivan, the skipper, ani Thomis Clark, seaman, lost their live*. So far as can be ascertained, only thei • two were on the vessel