WRECKED IN ITALY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 July 1938, Page 6

WRECKED IN ITALY

FATE OF FORMER AUCKLAND YACHT f GERMAN CHARTERER LOSES ’ HIS LIFE (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. News of the wreck, with loss of life, of the well-known Auckland auxiliary yatch Vision, was brought to Auckland by the Monterey today, by Mrs H. M. Montague, wife of Commander Montague, who is now in Hong Kong. Last seen in Auckland when she sailed away'four years ago, the Vision was chartered to a German couple, when Commander and Mrs Montague reached Greece aboard her. The Vision was wrecked in a gale about 10 months ago, on the Italian coast near Brindisi, and the German charterer lost his life in an attempt to salvage his wife’s jewellery. “After we left Auckland we went to Norfolk Island, then to Brisbane, travelling inside the Barrier Reef, thence to the Dutch East Indies and Singapore,” said Mrs Montague, who will spend a few months with her people in New Zealand. * “After stopping some time at Singapore, from which place I revisited New Zealand two years ago, we went to Colombo, Aden, Alexandria and Cyprus. We decided to cross Europe by rail and so chartered the Vision to a German and his wife, who were sailing the vessel home for us. They were running from Brindisi to Malta, when a gale wrecked the yacht. The German’s wife had £9OOO worth of jewels aboard the Vision, which was a total wreck. The Montagues had intended using the Vision in China waters. Commander Montague commands the Bund defence at Hong Kong.