SHIPPING.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 246, 24 March 1875, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF LYTTELTON. ARRIVED, March 24—Ocean Beauty, barque, 578 tons, Pearce, from London. March 24—Camilla, brigantine, 190 tons, White, from Hobart Town. March 24—Kestrel, ketch, 19 tons, Clarkson, from Manuka Bay. March 24—Quiver, ketch, 20 tons, Smith, from the Bays. March 24-Minnie, ketch, 19 tons, Marquet, from the Bays. CLEARED, March 24 —Herald, schooner, 53 tons, Hamilton, for Wellington. March 24—Fawn, brig, 216 tons, Brent, for Sydney. SAILED. March 24—Ladybird, s.s., 286 tons, Andrew, for Northern ports. Passengers Saloon: Mr and Mrs Walkin and 7 children, Messrs Ruff, Case, Bab, Culpan, Cox, Mrs Case. Steerage 23. THE MEDOEA IN A TYPHOON. The barque Medora left Dunedin on Saturday afternoon, and experienced strong N.W. winds till arrival on Monday at noon. We take the following account of her passage from China to Dunedin from the “Otago Daily Times,” of March Bth:—The aecond arrival from China was the barque Medora, which, it will be remembered, left Foo Chow in September last year bound to Dunedin, and being dismasted in a heavy typhoon south of Formosa had to run back to Hong Kong under jury rig to refit. The barque’s report of the typhoon, as was published in the “Hong Kong Times,” states that she left Foo Chow on September 19th, but had to anchor at Sharp Peak on the 21st, pending the abatement of a heavy sea on the bar. Got clear of the land on the 23rd, and carried light winds and cloudy weather to the I’encadore Channel; was there becalmed until Sunday, the 27th. It was then the typhoon commenced with a strong north wind and a falling barometer—weather clear. 4p. unwind increasing, took in small sails ; 5 p.m,, furled topgallant sails and spanker. Barometer, at noon, 29.91; 2 p.m., 29.86; 4 p.m., 29.80; 6 p.m., 29.VC; 8 p.m., 29.40; 10 p.m., 29.30; midnight, 28.90. At 6 p.m., gale increasing, the mainsail was furled, and at the same time the upper foretopsail blew away, and the foot-rope of the foresail parted. * At 8 p.m. sail was reduced to the two lower topsails. At 11.30 the wind veered to W.N. W., bringing the barque upon a lee shore, Yama Island bearing S.S.E., distant 25 miles. The wind hauling more, she managed to clear the land. A tremendous sea ran, breaching clean over, smashing bulwarks and starting spars. At 6 a.m. the lower foretopsail blew away; at 8 a.m. the barque was on her beam ends, with her hatch combings in the water; at 10 a.m. the barometer dropped to 28.30, and still falling, with an increasing typhoon. To ease the barque the three topmasts were cut away, and she righted a little. Soon after the barometer moved up and the wind increased to tremendous fury, whilst the sea swept the decks In sheets of water, that all hands had to be battened under hatches; remaining thereuntil the typhoon moderated a little. When they returned on deck they found the barque had been stripped to her lower masts, the lower yards having blown right away. A terrific sea got up as the ' gale went down, and if the Medora had not been a remarkably strong vessel, she could not have survived it. Finally the weather cleared, and such sail as could be improvised was made, and the barque ran back to Hong Kong, a distance of 1000 miles. She arrived there on Oct Bth, underwent a thorough refit, and sailed again on Jan 6th, much of her original cargo having been left behind in a damaged condition. A steady N.E. monsoon carried her through the China Sea; Macclesfield Bank was passed to the eastward, ten miles distant, and a course shaped between the Natuna Islands. All other islands on the line of route were passed to the westward, and alter crossing the Line oh January, 14th, she made a first land fall oil’ the islands of Toejo at the entrance of Banca Strait. The Strait was cleared on the night of the 15th—weather very thick, and hence she had to feel her way through with the lead. The North Watcher light, situated on the island of that name, about a degree north of Anger Point, was distinctly sighted next night. On the following day she was off Anger, and the wind there falling light, whilst the tide was strong ebb and low, she came to an anchor, and waited for the flood to make. Got under weigh again with the first of it, and worked through the Strait of Sunda against a strong westerly monsoon that blew a whole gale at times, and hence it was not until the 23rd that she cleared the Strait, taking a last departure from Princes Island. She passed to westward of, and out of sight of, Christmas Island. Picked up the south-east trades on January 2Bth in latitude 13 south, and lost in 35 south and longitude 103.32 east on February 10th. Hence she was muzzled by light southerly winds and calms, and struggled with them until the 19th, when the westerlies found her off the Leuwin. Thence steady and moderate passage winds, hanging between W. and N.W., stuck to her until she made the Solander on the 4th inst., and then a strong S.W. breeze carried her through the Strait and along the coast to the Heads by the afternoon of the sth.