LONELY WRECK.
ASHORE AT KERMADECS. /CREW ALL SAFE. OPEN BOAT’S JOURNEY. By Ttlegraph.—Press Aon.-— Copyright. Suva, Sept. 25. Captain Neil MuPchison, master of the schooner Columbia River, entered Suva harbor at 3.30 yesterday afternoon in the ship’s boat. He reported that the schooner had been wrecked on Sunday Island in the KermHecs at 4 o’clock, on the morning of September 8, while bound from Auckland to Portland, Oregon. The ship ran right ashore and is a total wreck. She is in a safe position and the crew of thirteen are all ashore. The captain landed stores and then decided to come to Suva for help. He started on September 11 on a voyage of 750 miles in the ship’s boat with six of the crew. The balance are well provided for and are living on the ship. All are well! The island is full of goats. H.M.N.Z.S. Chatham sails at 6 thia afternoon for .Sunday Island to pick up the Columbia River survivors and goes thence to Auckland. Received Sept. 26, 8 p.m. Suva, Sept. 8.
The Chatham sails for the Kermadecs at nine o’clock to-night and is due at Auckland about Monday.
[The Kermadecs are 600 miles from New Zealand, but probably the conditions for the longer voyage were considered more favorable.]
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1921, Page 5
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