THE NEVADA COLLISION.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 881, 31 October 1871, Page 3

THE NEVADA COLLISION.

News received by the Alhambra, reports a collision between the Nevada steamer and some other vessel, name unknown. We learn from Captain Cairns, who left Sydney on the 21st, that the collision took place about 500 miles from Sydney, the Nevada running into a large barque supposed to be coal laden and bound from Newcastle to New Zealand. The injuries received by a large steamer such as the Nevada, favour the conclusion, that the barque has probably foundered. The " Sydney Morning Herald" of the 21st mst., thus describes the injury sustained by the Nevada: —" The Nevada, American steamship, was taken into the VVaterview Bay Dry Dock yesterday, for the purpose of beiug stripped, caulked, and recoppered. The dimensions of this vessel are beyond the ordinary clas3 of ships visiting this port, and from the fact of her beam being 70 feet wide, "will at a glance demonstrate the provisions that are available for vessels of a large tonnage visiting Sydney. Capt. Donald, the Government Marine Surveyor, has examined the hull, and found that the stem has been seriously injured. The main stern-piece has been wrenched to starboard from the 8 feet mrtrk to 25 feet towards the stem-head, and the wood ends have been opened inch. Those damages have probably resulted from the collision with u vessel as reported. In addition, we may state that five of the floats have been broken off short outside the outer rim of the port wheel. A portion of a spar, apparently a yardarm or end of spanker-boom, was picked up on the of the Nevada shortly after the collision, it had been broken off short by the sheavhole and then split in half, the 'dogs being quite fresh.