THE LOST HENRIETTA.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 251, 23 October 1922, Page 3

THE LOST HENRIETTA.

CREW LANDS ON ISLAND. SAFE ARRIVAL IX AMERICA. Further news concerning the wreck of the American schooner Henrietta and 5 the rescue of her crew was brought to C Auckland by the motor vessel Hauraki. ; which arrived at Auckland last evening , from .Sin Francisco. The vessel left f Newcastle on August fi tor San Fran- s Cisco, via Honolulu, and right, days later. I ; when passing about 13 milea on" Nukui lailai Island in the Klli-e Group, a I vchspl's mast, with the mainmast broken 1 i off, was sighted close inshore. When I nearing the island to investigate a boat ' pulled liy natives approached. At the j storn was a white man. who proved to be Captain Olsen, master of the schooner Hrnriette. and it was the ma*ts of the ' <-chooner which had been wrecked on the , island that iiad been sighted by the ( Hauraki. Captain Olscti stated that the ' Henriette, en route from Kotumali j Island, north of the Fiji Group, to San , Francisco with a cargo of coprn. was , ' rur.ninp with a fresh breeze on July 2'*>, 1 when she went ashore on the -west side J I nf the island about 3.30 in the morning. , ! The schooner was badly holed near the | • I main hat.h. After some difficulty ajl ■ boat was launched and pot away from ( i the wreck. Trouble was also eneoun- j Itnird in landing on an island near by. , ! natives eventually piloting the boat 1 through an opening in the reef. ] I Captain Olson and his crew of seven were ( R-utl treated liy the natives during their : three weeks' Bttiv on the island. They ; were taken by the Hauraki to Honolulu, •and wore then transferred to an I American steamer to San Francisco. 1 ' The Henriette was a four-niafeted I vessel of 735 tons, and was built in ( I France in 1*74.