THE WRECK OF THE EMPRESS OF INDIA.
Further particulars of the wreck of the schooner Empress of India show that the vessel grounded while crossing the bar, and drifted on to the northern spit. A tug boat got a line aboard, and succeeded in dragging the vessel into comparatively calm water, and it was then thought that the danger was past. The master, tne wire states, was obliged to try and cross the bar, owing to the heavy sea coming into the bay. It appears that she afterwards struck on the shore and sank. Everything on deck was swept overboard, the water at hign tide being level with her bulwarks. There is hardly any hope of salvage. The schooner was manned by five men, including the master all of whom when the vessel struck took to the boat, and pulled from the wreck. The boat, with its load, had not proceeded any distance beAre "was capsized throwing the crew into the water. A struggle was made for the upturned members of the crew were drowned. The vessel was insured for £500 in the National Insurance Company of New Zealand It is probable that the wreck will be sold at auction.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 182, 2 August 1900, Page 4
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