THE STRATHCONA.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 July 1915, Page 4

THE STRATHCONA.

DKTAILS OF THE VVRKCK. By Telegraph.—Picas Association. Auckland, Last Night. Further particulars of the wreck of the Stratlieona, the Pacific Cable Board'H sehoom-r, came by mail from Suva 'oiluy. Before the marine enquiry in Suva, the captain of the Strathcona stated that tha. weather for a day or two after leaving Auckland was bail, but he di.l not ascribe his mishap to that, but, to his compasses. At 7.20 on the evening of .Tune 10 he had just worked out hia position as 29 miles from Minerva when the mate gave a sudden alarm anil the vessel struck on what afterward proved to be Minerva reef. They remained aboard the ship, on ton of tins reef, that night,, and. next morning ttfty dragged the boats i considerable diaWnea over the reef into a lagoon, and afterwards they built a large raft on which thev placed a stove and erected a tpnt. Eisht men took up their quarters there, while the captain anil four men undertook a perilous vovage of some liundjwiM of miles to Ono in the launch. were picked up bv the search steamer, as already desoribed, when returni'is from Oito wit"h a cutter. The ejztit other men spent an-uncn'inblc timq on the reef, though they had plenty, : of sunnlies and fish. , When the search stemner left, 't.'iu Strathcona was Iving on hpr side on reef, and was likely to become a total wreck.