LOSS OF A BARQUE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 175, 25 July 1892, Page 3

LOSS OF A BARQUE.

SIXTEEN LIVES LOST.

News from London by the last English mail states that a Lloyd's telegram from Milford Haven says the British barque Earl of Aberdeen, from Barry for Monte Videoi was totally lost recently, having struck Hats and Barrels Rocks^ off the coasb of Pembrokeshire. Eleven of the crew were landed ab Milford Haven, including the captain and mate. Sixteen persons are supposed to be drowned. The Earl of Aberdeen was an iron four-masted barque of 2,205 tons gross, built ab Glasgow in 1886, and owned by the Earl Sailing Ship Line (Limited)j of London. The following is a list of those landed at Milford ; —William Patrick, master; Enoch Davies, chief mate; John Gordon, steward; John O'Neill, Joseph Martin, John Tower, John Smith, Charles Elder, William Irvine, and J. Jacobson, all able seamen ; and B. Nicholson, an ordinary seaman. . The following are amongsb those believed to be drowned:—Robert Evans, second mate; Cremer, Alex. Milne, W. Evans, and W. Belwood, apprentices;J. Watts, boatswain, W. Illuger, A. Sebastian, and Thomas Upbon, and four other able seamen, whose names are unknown. John O'Neill, one of the surwiving seamen, says that two of the boats had been smashed, and an attempt was made.to launch two others, the after-part) of the ship being under water. "After several failures Burgess, the carpenter, managed to geb one boat afloat, and with Woodford, an apprentice, jumped into it. They were carried out with the bide, and were soon lost sight of. The lifeboat of the Foxhound came alongside. This was the lifeboat's maiden trip. Her crew risked their lives. In obedience to their directions all the men in the rigging, including the captain, slid down the guya and swam towards the boat). They were all picked up, and were the only men saved by the Foxhound. He could nob understand why the ship was so far north as the Pembrokeshire coast, seeing thac she was bound for Monte Video.

William Cremer, one of the apprentices drowned, wa3 a brother of Mr Albert Brandon-Cremer, theatrical manager of Miss Amy Vaughan and company, of this cicy.