WRECKED VESSEL
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THE CARNARVON BAY,
WO .NEWS-OP MISSING BOAT,
Received September 19, 11 a.m. MELBOURNE, September 19. There,is no news of the Carnarvun Bay's missing boat. A steamer started yesterday to search for it. It is feared that the Carnarvon Bay will become a total wreck. When the crew left bar, her head was fast on the rock, and she was bumping heavily, tenring her bottom, She carried 4000 tons of general cargo for Sydney.
The captain believes the rock is tin uncharted one.
The ship ran into tempestuous weather on Ist September. Her cabin doors were smashed, and seas swtpt the decks and did considerable damage.. The,badiweather continued till 'the; "vessel Struck; ■ ;>, ■\ r ,:t ';V.^ y They cantain ekperienced difficulty 1 : in getting-his i he ! was a rhile and a half irom laiid |at the time of ibeg'danding; .• : ; \'.' 'When/'-itfis: ;.' t wen ty-1 w .6". persons ; _cj amber a d ■i n jtp, the starboard one, while only■ 'seven *-" went into the port boat. Those in the latter refused to return for some time for fear oi being crushed by .the masts. When the men did obey the captain's some of the starboard boat's crew were transferred to the port boa \ leaving seventeen:. |n the captain's boat. Otherwise everyone behaved; spendidly; The Captain was especially COOl.. ; . v';." v -' : .v': , Those, in the boats were in-the... scantiest of clothing. They had a: small supply of food and water, and a bpttie or two of spirits.
From the time of leaving the ship till the larcpola<rescued them they were£.dri?en about by 'high cross Beas, and were kept constantly ,<baliqg v >They suffered from, cold and hunger. Some of the men were so' exhausted that they lay sleephg in six inches of. water at the bottom ot the boat.
Two steamers passed without noticing, their distress signals. A pair of trousers hoisted at the masthead brought the Tarcoola to their assistance.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10097, 20 September 1910, Page 5
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325WRECKED VESSEL Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10097, 20 September 1910, Page 5
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