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.Ug. Jupiter, 16 years Ketch 27 3 Ballast Foundered; total loss Outside Sumner Bar, Heathcote River, Canterbury Mahia Beach, Hawke's Bay ii Moderate While the anchor was being catted, the fluke pierced the port bow, causing the vessel to fill and sink in about twenty minutes Crew had to run vessel on shore to save their lives, as owing to wind and sea she was unable to beat out of the bight at Mahia Vessel drifted on to kedge of cutter Don, which was not buoyed, and fluke of kedge bilged her Vessel was entering Blueskin Harbour, when two or three blind rollers came in, in. the trough of one of which she struck on the bar. Mau fell overboard Robert Day. 3 Greenwich, 14 years CuWer 10 2 Timber Stranded; total loss S. Strong breeze Louis Binnie. 11 4 Cornstalk, 13 years Cutter 19 2 General Bilged ; partial loss On the Hard, Grahamstown, Thames On the bar at entrance, Blueskin Harbour, East Coast, Middle Island In Cook Strait, off Cape Campbell w. Strong breeze Nathaniel Morgan. 11 6 Kestrel, 8 years Ketch 51 4 Iron rails Stranded; partial loss N.E. Light air Benjamin Bern. „ 7 Moa, 27 years Brig 219 Coal and timber Loss of life 1 N. Fresh Dearmid McDearmid. „ 11 Clematis, 4 years Ketch 67 6 1 Timber Capsized ; partial loss Supposed 7 (all hands) 1 Supposed off Banks' Peninsula Vessel supposed to have capsized during a heavy gale on 11th August Heavy sea broke over vessel, dismasting her, and washing one of the crew overboard Boat capsized while entering river with mails, and an A.B. drowned George Henry Clark. „ 13 Acadia, 2 years Schooner 53 4 Dismasted ; partial loss 20 miles south of the Mahia Peninsula On bar at Holyford River, Martin's Bay, West Coast On Nelson Boulder Bank, 3 miles N.E. of lightLouse Between Wellington and Lyttelton Outside Constant Bay, near Charleston, • West Coast Bar of Waitara River, Taranaki w.s.w. Whole gale Duncan McDonald. „ 14 Maori, s.s., 8 years 118 Loss of life 1 James Malcolm. „ 19 Maid of Italy, 4 years Cutter 14 2 2 N.Z. produce Stranded ; partial loss Light air Stranding caused by mistiness of night and set of current, but might have been avoided had the load been hove Passenger supposed to have committed suicide (from effects of drink) by jumping overboard Supposed to have been capsized by a heavy squall, and then drifted on to rocks Isaac Fletcher. „ 20 Alhambra, s.s., 21 years Schooner 497 Loss of life 1 Malcolm Muir. „ 26 Flying Cloud, 11 years ii 46 4 Ballast Supposed capsized and stranded Stranded; partial loss Supposed 4 (all hands) N.E. Gale Frederick Edwin Andrews. Fiery Cross, 8 years ii 6 1 Live stock S.W. Light Vessel grounded on bank, and tug not of sufficient power to tow her off Insufficient depth of water on bar Reuben Wells. „ 31 72 lept. 1 Manaia, p.s., 2 years ii 62 5 2 General Stranded ; no damage On the bar at the mouth of the Wairoa River South end of Little Barrier Island N.W. ii Robert Baxter. „ 7 Start, 3J years Cutter 27 3 11 Stranded ; partial loss 1 S.S.W. Strong breeze Master of vessel fell overboard, and remainder of crew (2) went to his assistance in boat, but were unsuccessful in their attempt to save him ; they were then unable to regain the vessel, which was driven away by wind, and finally stranded on the south end of the Francis Diaz.