GERMAN TRAINING SHIP LOST.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 19, 23 January 1901, Page 2

GERMAN TRAINING SHIP LOST.

i ■ MADRID, December 16. fe

% The German training frigate Gneisenau| | has foundered off Malaga, north-east of| | Gibraltar. The Gneisenau foundered at* a the entrance to the port of Malaga,! ;1 where she was about to take refuge from| 5| the terrible storm prevailing. A largefj |number of the cadets can be seen from;-: if the shore clinging to the rigging. They^ | are shouting and signalling for help. Ther f| captain and many of the cadets have? jabeen drowned. « a It is believed that forty who left In ones, moi the ship's boats and have not been? Hseen since, are lost. The total loss isfj |now thought to be no less than 100. SomeS, is dispatches say 140. Forty of those saved* ware badly hurt. * jg The training siiip has been at Malagas P since November Ist, practising withE & guns of large calibre. She had been; i previously at Megador, Morocco. At 10t' U o'clock this morning a review of the* E cadets was in order. The wind was ex-| Ktremely violent and instructions weree | given to stoke up as rapidly as possible.£ I But already mounltainous waves hads % struck the ship, snapping the anchor.' •m chains. She was driven helpless toward jlithe port and sank. The crew threw* J themselves into the sea and clung to| f, the wreckage, but the majority quickly^ | disappeared. Captain Kresthmann diedij % at his post. j S The Malaga lifeboat made three efforts! 1 and rescued 15, but the weight capsized! I the boat and twelve were drowned. The i jjj other three were saved by means of [ Ijropes thrown to them. The port author!-^ pities saved many of the sailors. The sur-j I vivors have been received at the hospital, \ I the Hotel do Ville and private houses. ; 1 All the theatres in Malaga abandoned t I their performances this evening. \