TOTAL LOSS OF THE SCHOONER RANDOLPH, AND NARROW ESCAPE OF THE CREW.
schooner, Randolph, Captain Gray, was lost off -Lyttelton heads, On Saturday. It appear? that the • vessel was on her way from Pigeon iJay with a' load of firewood, and when lying off Little Port Cooper becalnied; andPnaving- no' way on her, a squall caught her, and she capsized. The men were abl6 to cling hold to her bottom, and ultimately got into the dingy ; the schooner going down into deep Water. By this time a watheriygale was blowing with great fury, and the men with difficulty were able to make the pilot station, "Inuch exhausted, the captain having to bail Out;the boat with his sou-wester. The pilot boat at this time waß at Lyttelton, having come up with the s.s. Mongol; or assistance would have been rendered, j it took the men over two hours to full a distance of a quarter of a mile, bo epyyiyas; the gale. :; : v
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Press, Volume XXII, Issue 2680, 10 March 1874, Page 2
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