AUSTRALIAN SHIPWRECKS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 238, 13 February 1911, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN SHIPWRECKS

THE GLEX'BANK CATASTROPHE. SIXGLE SURYIYOR r S STORY. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright, j Fremantle, February 11. Tile Glenbank was loading copper ore at Ballaballa last Sunday. The barometer fell rapidly, and the master, fearing a cyclone, put to sea with 2800 tons of loose copper aboard. The vessel had sailed twenty-four hours when the full force of the storm struck her. All hands were called to shorten sail, and while the men were working, the boat suddenly turned turtle, twenty miles from Cossack. One of the crew, Ankee Katola, who was afloat, grasped a boat paddle, and with it swam fifteen miles to Lcgendre, where he was rescued by a pearler yesterday. Tie hail been without food and drink for three days, and was very exhausted and lacerated. Katola is a Russian, and unable to speak English, hut from what can he gathered, he saw nothing of his shipmates after the foundering of the vessel, and very little hope is entertained of the safety of any of them. Experts are of opinion that the ore was not stowed to the best ndvantage. and when the squall struck the barque the cargo shifted. The coast in the vicinity will he searched for possible survivors.

THE SPECULAXT BREAKTXTi UP. Melbourne, February 11 Tin' Speculaut is breaking up.