STORY OF THE WRECK.
THE CAPTAIN'S STATEMENT. COULD NOT PICK. UP PEXCAPKOW. STRIKES AT ID O'CLOCK. Wellington. Saturday. Captain Navlurs .statement is that lu' lelt I'ictoii at (i.HII and entered Ih'j Strait at 7.511. Tim weather was clear at the tiini'. When half-way across ii became very thick, lie set a course which would keep him well clear of the land, allowing for a southerly set. He expected to pick up Poncnr'row light, but he could not see it. He was in the i net of putting the vessel's head out | down the Strait to sen \vlu-,i she struck at 10 o'clock oil Tom's Rock, an outlying obstruction oil' Torawhiti. The vessel struck about midships on the starboard side. The pumps were sounded, and water was found to be making ,in Nos. I anil > holds. The water gained slowly on the enghie-rnoni pumps. The lifeboats were swung out and the women and children sent away. A very heavy sea was running, and the first boat was immediately smashed, but its occupants were all got on board and transferred to another boat. _ There was plenty of time to get the boats away. . but at eight minutes to eleven the 1 steamer sank bodily. The captain and several of the crew were .still on board, and had to launch the rafts and jump for them. The captain succeeded in reaching a broken Ijoat and got ashore on it. (In the way l,e picked up a man. but lost him coming; over the reel'. Two rafts landed about midnight, and neither had seen any of the boats. The captain, however, did not succeed in gelling ashore till an hour and a-half before daylight. He found the men from the rafts being eared for bv Mr. McMcuanien. a resident of the locality. As far as he. knows there are two boats still out, ami there is a prospect of their reaching Ohau I Say if they esI cape being swamped.
He was on the bridge all I lie war, and lliu third ollicer with him. lie cannot account for the disaster, except on the theory that lie was carried in by a heavy swell and southerly set.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 18, 15 February 1909, Page 2
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363STORY OF THE WRECK. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 18, 15 February 1909, Page 2
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