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A TOTAL WRECK.

BAI'QH'IO TIHTOX OX A RF.KF. 'j OFF lIAIiOTONOA BKAI M. The mail steamer Moana, inward fro.il Sau FraneU.o on Saturday morn in:, brought lir.st news to Wellington of- the 1 total wreck the barqu n Triton, at ltarotonga. nn December '2l last. All ' the luembeis of the crew returned Ir. 1 the Moana. The Triton sailed from 'Blull' on November 21, in ballast, for Maiden Island, to load there with jfuano for New Zealand. After an uneventful vovagc she made the anchorage off Rnrotoiuri. where a call was to be made to pie!; up some native workers to assist in loading the shin at Maiden Island. At three o'clock on the afternoon of December 21, while the captain was endeavoring io liml a suitable anchorage, the vessel ran on to the well-known net which the lagoon at' Itarotoii';.'. . More than this the member.* of (hecrc'.v will not communicate. The vessel beiran I) fill very rapidly, so rapiillv as to leal'' no doubt in the minds of the crew that the bottom of the ship fiitd been seriously damaged. All attempts to dislodge the vessel failed, but .die staved hard arid fast on the rocks, half-full of water, anil that sai»e afternoon the crew abandoned her. A line was sent ashore by a buoy, and before nightfall all the crew had got ashore safely. Apparently there was no danger of lives being !e-i, ns the wreck occurred only about -V) yards from the shore. Al Karotonga the crew w"r> eared for by the native- and other residents of the and took the first ship, which haiinened to be the -M on mi. back to New Zealand The Triton is an iron barque of 7ii2 tons, built in 1878 by Austin and lluiit"V, Sunderland, ller owners at the t'nie of the wreck were Norwegian. S'he was a frequent trader between New '/';)■ land and .Maiden Island. At the time of the wreck she was commanded hv I Captain Olson, who had with him Mr P. j Paulsen as male. The wreck was sold to some enter- j prising natives at Karotonga for £MP. There is said to lie" not, the remotest chance of the vessel be*ng refloated, but most of the :»eni - and other moveables should be valuable. The vime purchaser paid £2l for the stores which the vessel had on board for Maliidi Tsland. All the auspices were against the sailing of the. imrque. There were 1:1 pcr- ! sons on board, a crew of 12 and one passenger; it was her thirteenth trio to Maiden Island: tin. vi-i.se] left Tlluir on a Friday, and one member of the cre.v admits having signed articles on the thirteenth day of the month. Also, the Triton carried a Jonah oil board, a seaman culled Oscar ousson. Hounding Cap? Horn last year, lie was-wrecked in a foreign c ailer. By and bv he came taa New Zealand, and was again shipwrecked at the niufT in the ill-starred barque Okta.' Then he shipped in the Triton.

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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 160, 6 January 1914, Page 8

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A TOTAL WRECK. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 160, 6 January 1914, Page 8

A TOTAL WRECK. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 160, 6 January 1914, Page 8

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