SCOW OBAN CAPSIZED.
A SEAMAN DROWNED
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
BLENHEIM, this day
The scow Oban, a vessel of forty tons, was struck by a squall and capsized yesterday morning at 1 o'clock off Ketu Bay, "in Peloras Sound. Captain Bonnor and hi? son clung to the vessel, and were rescued about eight o'clock
The other member of the crew, a Swede named Andrew Anderson, was drowned.
The Oban was in - ballast at the time, and was on the way from Wanganui to Pelorus for a cargo of timber.
[The scow Oban was a wooden vessel, built in 1897 at Omaha by Mr D. M. Darrode and measured 68.8 feet length, 17.5 feet beam and 4.4 feet depth. She was originally fitted with an oil engine and plied regularly between Auckland and Waipu, but the engine was afterwards taken out and she traded for a time between Waitara and Wanganui, on the West Coast. She returned to Auckland and waß engaged in the coastal trade until September 26 of last year,when she was sold and taken to Nelson, and has since been trading between Nelson, Colling' wood ahd Foxton.]
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 207, 12 September 1901, Page 5
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