ITALIAN SHIPMASTER LOST

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 124, 3 September 1910, Page 5

ITALIAN SHIPMASTER LOST

BEECROFT'S PERILOUS PASSAGE. THE CREW PASS AN ANXIOUS TIME. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night. | The Italian ship Beecroft, which left | Marseilles on April 7th for the Bluff, Dunedin and Lyttelton, with 825,000 roofing tiles and 624 crates of flooring tiles, arrived to-day after a stormy ana i eventful passage of 154 days. | The snip came into port under the . command of Senor Giovanni Obvari, the | first mate, who reports that during a severe storm on the night of August 3, when the ship was near Cape Leeuwin, Captain Pellegro Ferrari, aged 3?., I was washed overboard and never seen again. At the time of the accident the ■ ship was running under the main, lower and topsail, before a heavy gale, accompanied by snow and hail with a big following sea. Captain Ferrari was standing on the poop when a mountainous, sea broke on board and washed him away. Two men, who were at tile wheel, were washed forward to the main deck. The compass went overboard and the ship's boats were smashed and carried away. The night was very dark. IPrior to the loss of the captain another death occurred on board. Shortly after leaving Marseilles, a sailor named Skjelm, a Norwegian, aged 20. died, the supposed cause being heart disease.