KAIPARA SUNK

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 81, 31 August 1914, Page 8

KAIPARA SUNK

OFFICERS AND CREW LANDED - SAFELY. SOME OF THE KAISER WILHELM'S WORE. Received 30, 5.3 p.m. London, August 29 (morning). The Daily Chronicle reports, that the. Kaiser Wilheim sank the Kaipara, Tubalcain, and Nyanga. The crews were landed at Las Palmas.

Official news states .thai;'the whole rf the Kaipara's crew is at Las Palmas. (Las Palmas is thf principal'town in the Canary Islands.)

INTERESTING PARTICULARS.

•Under ordinary circumstances, if the Kaipara left Monte Video on the Ist instant, she 1 should have arrived; at Home last Saturday (says the New Zealand Times). The vessel loaded for West of England ports at Wellington, Blufl, Waitara Lytteltwn and Dunedin, and left Lyttelton on July 11 for Avonmouth via Las iPalmas anil Monte Video. The Kaipara was loaded under the auspices of the Federal-Shire line, the New Zealand and African company being the local agents. Captain 11. Makepeace, who was in command of the Kaipara, had the following officers:—Messrs H. J. Wilde, chief; H,' T. Fell, second; D. Patergon third; W. K. Fowler fourth. Mr. F. Marshall was chief engineer, with Messrs W. Smith, W. Morris, R. Williamson, C. Park, and H. Sommcrvillc, as second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth respectively. MrG. Jones is chief refrigerator, and Mr H. Balloek seeond. Dr. Micßae wan suigeon, Mr. F. S. Shrimpton wireless operator, and Mr J. M. Kebblewhite (late Rotorua) chief steward. The vessel took no passengers from New Zealand.

The Kaipara wes owned by the Mew Zealand Shipping Company, and was a vessel of 7392 tons, built in 1903 at Glasgow by John 'Brown and Co. She was 460 feet long, 58 feet beam, and 31 feet depth.