MARINE MISHAPS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 132, 13 September 1910, Page 5

MARINE MISHAPS.

WRECK OF A KETCH. CREW'S iPERILOUS EXPERIENCE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Monday. The ketch Felicity, 24 tons, Captain Anderson, which left Wellington yesterday morning bound for Havelock and Pelorous Sound, sank off Pencarrow lighthouse, Wellington Heads, during the night. The crew scrambled on to the rocks and were rescued by the lighthouse keeper. A north-west gale was blowing at the time, and a heavy sea running in Cook Strait The little vessel was unable to make headway, ana was returning to port when the disaster oocurred. The Felicity was owned by Captain T. Sommerville, of Nelson. She was built there in 1885. Her masts are visible, but she is breaking up. CAPSIZE OF A YACHT. MEX-OF-WARSMEN TO THE RESCUE. Wellington, Monday. A yacht containing Donald M'Gilvray and his son, Roderick James M'Arthur, J. Maines, and W. Taylor, capsized in the harbour yesterday. The yacht was in the vicinity of H.M.S. Encounter. Lieut. Elmslie ordered the skiff out, anil Lance-Corporal William Cook jumped from the warship's side, but finding the sea too rough and the distance too great, returned to the ship. The man-of-war's crew succeeded in hefting all the men into the boats, just in time in two cases. Great commendation is due to the crew of the Encounter.