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Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 257, 31 October 1888, Page 4

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TREVELYAN.-A LIFE-BUOY PICKED UP.

In our yesterday's issue a cable message from London stated that a lifebuoy marked "Trevelyan" had been found at Koelburg, on the South African coast, and that it was now considered certain that she was the unknown ship whose foundering off Cape L'Aqulhas was witnessed on June 3 by those on board the Cape mail steamer Drummond Castle. The Drummond Castle brought the first intelligence of the disaster to London, and stated that the position tho ship was supposed to have foundered in was :—Cape L'Aguihas, W.S.W., 15 miles, lb was seen about 10 p.m. on the night of the 3rd that the vessel then just sighted, was showing signs of distress, Tho atoamev bore down on her and stood by her for some time, but at 3 a.m. in the morning she went; down suddenly with all hands, amid most fearful shrieks from the drowning people, The ship was described as a lar^e vessel, withforemaat and etumpof mizzen-mastoniy

standing, and with heavy list to port, the cargo having apparently shifted. The- Trevelyaii was bound from Glasgow to Dunedin, having left the former port on March 23rd, with a large cargo of spirits and general freight. She was in charge of Captain Roberts, a young but thoroughly competent man, who was wellknown" in Auckland, as is also his father, Captain Roberts, of the ship Hermione, of "which vessel Captain Roberts, junior, was formerly chief officer. The Trevelyan has for some time past been posted at Lloyd's as missing. From the date of her sailing from Glasgow, tho ship should have been much further on her way to New Zealand than the neighbourhood of the Cape, and it is therefore probable that previous to her final disaster she had met with serious damage, and perhaps had been drifting water-logged in the Southern Ocean for some weeks.