DISASTERS AT SEA.
STEAMERS IN COLLISION.
ONE VESSEL FOUNDERS IN THREE MINUTES.
TWELVE LASCARS DROWNED.
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright. Received January 3, 9.5 p.m. LONDON, January 3. During a dense fog vesterday, the EJlerman liner Arcadian, bound from London, to Glasgow, and Basca, collided with the Holder liner Ayrshire, bound from Manchester to Durban and Australia, off the Tuscar Rock, Ireland. The Aicadian foundered in three minutes. Of her crew of 52 Lascars, 12 who went below to secure their money, perished. The remainder were picked up by the Ayrshire. The Ayrshire received a crashing blow forward, and commenced to fill. She was towed with 200 passengers to the harbour refuge at Hollyhea'l, where she was safely beached. The passengers beheaved well, and there was no panic. The Ayrshire's No 1. hold was flooded.
SAILING BOAT OVERTURNED.
ONE MAN DROWNED.
Received January 3, 3.50 a.m. BRISBANE, January 3. A sailing boat overturned off Peel Island on Friday morning. , The crew of four men clung to the bottom of the boat, which drifted for eighteen hours. Thiee of the men wer.e tended in a very exhausted state. The fourth, named Peterson, was drowned after clinging to the boat for fourteen hours.
YACHT WASHED ASHORE.
FOUR MEN MISSING.
Received January 3, 10.20 a.m. HOBART, January 3. The small yacht Ayesha has been washed ashore at Low Head, forty miles north-west of Launceston. The yacht left Ulverstone for a day's fishing. The crew of four Vince (the owner), Welsh, Jack and Inglis,— all young men, are missing.
AN UNCHARTED ROCK.
WHERE THE PAPANUI STRUCK
Received January 3, 10.20 a.m. HOBART, January 3. An uncharted rock has been dis covered where the New Zealand Shipping Company's liner Papanui struck a fortnight ago. The rock is covered with ten feet of water, and is four and a-half miles off Waterhouse Island. It is wonderful that no accident had occurred at the rock before, as it was in the direct route of vessels.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9681, 4 January 1910, Page 5
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329DISASTERS AT SEA. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9681, 4 January 1910, Page 5
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