Terrible Privations at Sea.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3365, 20 November 1889, Page 3

Terrible Privations at Sea.

By the wreck of tho London barque Mallsipto the crow of twentyono hands had a terrible experience. The Jlallsgato, an iron barque of 1078 tons, under tho command of Captain M. H. Adams, was going from Newcastle (Now South Wales), to San Francisco, whon she struck somo rocks known as Middloton Reef, about 290 miles from Clcmence Head. In a 1 short tirno tho vessel was going lo pieces, Two boats left the wreckone in charge of Captain Alums, and th« second in charge of tho chief officer, There were ten in the former boat and eleven in the latter, Tho mate's boat was well provisioned, but there were only ut four tins of lisli, t\\ o pounds of bread, and two gallons of water itayhe captain's, The vessel showed signs of heeling over, ami the boats had to leavo her quickly. In tho darkness of the night the boats got separated, and in the heavy weather uncoimtereil were sevtrr.l limes almost swamped. Tho captain's boat was the first to turn up, arriving at a pilot station. The men were in a sad plijht from exposure, starvation, and thiist. They had been eight days in their little craft exposed to all weathers. They were kindly treated, and ultima loly recovered from the effects of their adventure. Nothing was then heard of the mate's boat, and fears were entertained us to her safety, Slip, however, turned up, the men being discovered on shore in even a worse condition than their i comrades. When louml, live of the poor fellows wrro too weak to travel, During the Gve days previous to their discovery the shipwrecked men had only one bottle of fruit, for cloven of them to subsist on. Tho Ma!ls«;ate belonged to Messrs Fislier and Sprott, of London, and was built at Workington, of iron,in 1877.