A SHIPWRECKED CREW.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2192, 16 May 1908, Page 3

A SHIPWRECKED CREW.

A MONTH ON AN ISLAND. RESCUED BY H.M.S. PEGASUS. (Press .Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, May 15. H.M.S. Pegasus returned to Lyttelton to-niglit bringing with her the crow, twenty-two in all, of the fourmasted French barque President Felix Faure, which was-wrecked on tho Antipodes Islands on March 13. The Pegasus had left Wellington on May 6 on a visit to the Chatham, Bounty and Antipodes Islands. Sho arrived at the last-named on May 13th at midday and the smoke of a fire was then seen followed by tho waving of garments by men on the beach. Sho anchored on the northern side of the island and a boat went off and discovered the shipwrecked crew. The French barque had left New Caledonia on February 16th with a cargo of nickel ore for Havre, in France. She ran ashore on the south side of the island on March 13th.. The crew landed in one of tho boats and found the provision depot. The ship did not smash up. till April IStli and up till then the men lived on stores brought from the ship. After that, however, they fell back on the dopot provisions which had to be supplemented by albatrosses and seals. The men were in good health when rescued.

Mr George Humphreys, local French Consular agent, visits Lyttelton to-morrow to take charge of tho shipwrecked men and to make arrangements for their passages back to France.