A DISASTROUS WRECK.

Inangahua Times, Volume XI, Issue 1701, 7 May 1886, Page 2

A DISASTROUS WRECK.

.+ The Uuion Company's royal mail steamer Gentian arrived in Plymouth Sound on Tuesday, February 2. Among her passengers were Captain Vesej and nine seaman, snrvivors of the crew of the Hudson's Bay, of Glasgow, whub foundered on the 10th of January, 120 j milosofl Plettt'ii'iurg Uav, Cape Colony, lj of tliH crew ben,-* drowned. Ti»e vosacl. wliich wa«i of 1,559 tons, went d nvii during a heavy ijaie between Mussel Bay a:id Algos Bty. She left Si'iieraiii,' on the SHtof November f«nPalmouth with a cargo of su^-tr. O ) Saturday, the 6 h of J.inuary, a hoavy . gnle, with torrifijseu, was experienced. | T'j«- v-.MSfI, wliich was on f li.' star.u-n J i t.ick, witli !'>\\\t n»ain topsail set, heeled | over o:i h'T beam-ends the pirt side j liiliil,' undei wal^r. Tho c.v.^o having | shifted, order Were i;i\ etl tOcnt -iway tile j itmiu and ni!//:ii m-i'-.L-?, aul shortly j afierwards the vissel c;ipsiz-d and J sa:ik. A ooat, which hud been ordered to be got ready, was found to be disabled, and the crew clung to pieces of wreckage. Nine men wore afterwards aUle to get into the boat, which had lighted itself; the rem-iiuiug 15, including first and seroud officers, carpenters and steward, being drowned. The captain, who was clinging to a piece of wreckage, was the last \n-\n saved. The men iv the boat had no provisions nor dry clothes, and were in a state, of exhaustion. They remained in the l»oat from the Sunday morning until the Tuesday following, when they were picked up by the American ship Southern Cross, Cap tain Bailey, from Ho-Ho to New York, by whom they were most kindly treated. Tile passengers brought by the (xerinun also include Captain Ivftiiovitch, of the Austrian ship Aurora, which was destroyed l>y fire j in the roadstead at St. Helena on the Ist of January.