SHIPPING DISASTER
ALL HOPE ABANDONED: VESSEL IX LIGHT TRL..~. ,*W (Received March 29, 10 a.m.) *■' '-.:,' .;■'■■■ SYDNEY/ March 29. Up to last .'"'night there was. a h'ncgering hope that the Yongala was still afloat, but the discovery of a . lot of. wreckage 'on Kepple Reef, •consisting of a quantity of cargo and ■ fittings, identified beyond doubt a 8 .belonging to the missing steamer, shattered all hope. The Herald gives the number of -souls aboard the steamer as 141— 73 itud 68 passengers; the Telegraph makes the number 120 (crew 70, passengers 50). Until the : lists have been thoroughly overhauled the actual number- cannot, be- deV stated. 'Probably; the larger number will be found nearer the mark.
YThe captains of the vessels who : : passed tlirough the. ..storm the Yon- ;■■; -;:gala'met: describe it a3 of exception- '-;..".'. al: violence ( even for that '. part of the ; Wlien the Guthrie Yv:finrounterejiat,-it was' ep violent as ; . to /render it-impossible' for anyone to move'about the decks. Two of _> jjhe Guthrie's"boats were blown clean ft away, and. everything movable was ■■» washed overboard. The tarpaulins. !!"->.' were stripped from the hutches. A change.of. wind caused a '','•'■; dangerous cross, sea, ' and several ; times the Giithrie was almost on her beamends. - Other, vessels had,., similar experi- ■:.'. v 'lencißS.-'.'.'■■' . ■.''['•'. ' "'''■••' / , ; Shipping men agreed i'that no ves-sei-'Bn, light trim could live in such ■ •' v ia. storm.'.'.- ', .';• ■•
(Received March 29,' 10.35 a.m.) BRISBANE, March 29. T Two of the Yongala- 1 " passengers I —Messrs Greenfiak' and O'Brien—joined the vessel as Mnckay, and three left there, namely, Messrs Must, Real and Bonner. It is believed now £hat the vessel struck one of the reefs between Flinders Passage and Keeper Reef. If this is correct, the Yongala would have been twenty miles outside her course. Up to the present little is known regarding the passengers beyond their names. It is understood that at the last moment some who had looked passages changed their * minds, owing to the weather condi- "' tions and other circumstances, and this*to some extent accounts for the ■discrepancies in the accounts regarding the number of souls aboard. Captain Knight was Commodore of the Adelaide Steamship Company's fleet. Be was married, but had no family. Most of the officers .' \. were married jnen with families.:Th.e 1 chief stewardess was the widow. ,of Captain English., ■ who lost his • life some years ago in the wreck of the steamer Gleneig. ( Search for possible survivors is being continued with great vigour. However, the general opinion is that there was little hope of any escaping in such a storm and in such wild and dangerous surroundings. r The cargo consisted of flour, chaff, , machinery, and general merchandise. , / The Adelaide Steamship Company ttate that the insurance on the Yongain is £90,000, tho company holding one-fourth, and the balance divided between the South' British , Company and the Union Company of Oanton.
fe;j . (The Yongala, a, steel; screw steani- &:?■'(&> built in 1903. by Messrs Arm;.^;,^strong,;; WMtworth: and- Co.', \Ltd.„ BLer- dimensions were: I§ J •Length, 1 350ftj breadth,:■ :45ft j depth 1 :
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10199, 30 March 1911, Page 5
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497SHIPPING DISASTER Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10199, 30 March 1911, Page 5
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