A ROUGH PASSAGE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8451, 31 May 1907, Page 5

A ROUGH PASSAGE.

| SAILING SHIP IN DISTRESS. By Telegraph—Press Association. DITNEDIN, May 30. The sailing ship Glenlui, bound from Adelaide to Conception Bay, on the West Coast of South Africa, with a cargo of 24,860 bags of wheat, was sighted from Cape Saunders shortly before 1 p.m., to-day, making for Otago Heads, under shortened sail. The vessel was then ten miles to the S.E. of the Cape, and was making slow progress:. When the Glenlui was some six miles off she signalled for a pilot, and the tug Plucky at once went out to her. She was found standing in under a lower fore topsail and lower main topsail and staysails. The Plucky immediately took her in tow and the signal was made to the Heads for the services of a second tug, which was taken on shore as an indication that something was seriously wrong. The tug Coputai steamed rapidly from Port Chalmers, and went out to sea, and assisted in towing the vessel, which had water in her hold, and was drawing 23 feet. In towing to the Heads, which was reached at 6 30 p.m., it was ascertained that the vessel had three feet of water in her hold, and xhat she had fallen in with a violent westerly gale when off the Snares on Monday night. The bulwarks, staunohions and deck structures were smashed and washed overboard by the force of the gale, and the cabin fittings were smashed to pieces. The heavy seas which swept over the distressed vessel got down the hold through the cabin, and three feet of water speedily accumulated, damaging cargo and stores. During the height of the gale the mate was wished overboard and drowned, and the ship's sails were torn to ribbons. The name was Jones, but his Christian name is not ascertainable. He shipped on the vessel at Adelaide. When the gale abated Captain I Scott, who was in command, set all hands to the pumps, and when the Glenlui reached the Heads the water in the hold had by hard and continuous pumping been reduced to 13 inches. The captain and crew lost nearly all their clothes, and all the boats except one, which is much damaged, were washed away. The vessel, which will be brought to port to-day, left Adelaide on May 12th with a cargo of wheat, and it is probable that as much of this has been damaged by water she will have to discharge at Port Chalmers, and will possibly go into dock for repairs.