SHIPPING.

Press, Volume XXII, Issue 2736, 15 May 1874, Page 2

SHIPPING.

PORT OF LYTTELTON. ARRIVED. May 14—Paterson, p.s., 260 tons, Handle, from Dunedin. May 14—Belle Brandon, schooner, 65 tons, Ohlson, from Auckland. SAILED. May 14—Pate-son, p.s., 260 tons, Mundle, for Wellington. May 14 — Celestia, barque, 225 tons, Browne, for Newcastle, N.S.W., in ballast. May 14—Hudson, ship, Trewyn, for London. Reported May 12th. May 14—Mary King, schooner, Hilton, for Oamaru. ,_ , Hay 14—Taranaki, s.s., 299 tons, Wheeler, for Wellington. Passengers—Messrs Johnston, Duff, Osborne, Broadbent, Callow, Stevenson, Layfield. imtobts. Per Belle Brandon : 39,000 feet timber, 43 doors, 42 pair sashes, 6 do French casements, 1300 empty sacks. Per Paterson : Under bond—l 3 casks, 12 crates, 104 packages, 47 cases, 252 sashweights. Free—2B packages, 4 rolls, 2 bales. expobts. Per Taranaki: For Wellington—3 cases coffee. 25 sacks seed, 2 telegraph poles, 2 packages, 7 sacks seed, 1 box. For Wanganui—23 case«», 300 sacks wheat. For NelBon—4 cases, 2 chairs. For Hokitika—7 cases, 1 tierce, 20 kegs. For Picton—s sacks sharps. For Manukau—GO sacks malt. VESSELS IN HA.HBOB. Ships — Rakaia, Crusader, Invcrerne, China, Portland, Apelles. Barques — Dilharree, Hopeful, Mallard, Prince Alfred, Albyn's Jsle. Auriga. Brigs—Carl, Pakeha, Craig Ellachie. Schooners —Marminn, Arthur Wakefield. Margaret, Courier, Dagm'ar, E. U. Cameron, William and Mary, Fiery Cross, Cora. Ketches—Flying Squirrel, Jane Elkin. The p.s. Paterson, Captain Mundle, arrived in harbor on Wednesday night. She sailed for Northern ports last night. The s.s. Taranaki sailed for Northern ports yesterday, at 4.30 p.m. -The ship Hudson sailed for London yesterday afternoon. The schooner Mary King sailed for Oamaru yesterday. The " Argus" of the 4th instant reports the arrival, on the previous day, of the Cambridgeshire, a new iron ship on her first voyage, and owned by Messrs G. Marshall and Co., of London. She is described as a fine vessel of 1700 tons, replete with all the latest improvements in ship-building and appointing. She came in dismasted, and we give the following abridged account of the disaster. The "Argus" says:—"The Cambridgeshire, in command of Captain Marshall, left London on January 27th, and took her departure from the Lizard on January 30th, at 6 p.m. At a quarter to 2 a.m. on February 16th, iv lat 28deg»"-N., and long 21deg W., while the ship was gbntg along five or six knots, with a light breeze, and all small sail get, she fell in with her first trouble. A Blight freshening ol the breeze took away the dead-eye plates on the starboard side from the martingale back guys, thus leaving no support for the jibboom, and breaking the foretopmast head, l'he ship was kept "on her course, and the spars were replaced as speedily as possible. The meridian of the Cape of Good Hope was passed on March 22nd, and on Wednesday, April Ist, Kerguelen was sighted. On the followiug day the wind freshened into a strong gale from S.S.W., and at noon on that day the ship was only under her three lower topsails. Captain Marshall gave orders to have the mizen topsail taken in, but seeing the bowsprit rise, hs feared that the bobstay had parted. The second mate at the same time reported that the foretopmast stay-3 were gone, and Captain Marshall had the helm put hard jup instantly. Hands were also called aft to square the cross-jack-yard, so as to get the ship before the wind. She had only paid off about two points when the foretopmast went over the side and was quickly followed by the main and mizentopmasts. Four seamen who were furling the mizentopsail were more or less injured by the falling spars. One of them had his thighbone fractured and several ribs broken, but, fortunately amongst the passengers on board, there was Dr W. H. Syme, formerly in practice in this colony at El Dorado, and he did what was necessary for the relief of the sufferers. When this accident occurred the remainder of the crew were busy cutting away the wreck of the foretopmast. The foreyard being overend and swinging heavily against the forestay, parted it, and shortly afterwards the foremast snapped across flush with the deck, and fell aft on the deckbouse, crushing the top in its descent. The masthead broke off and fell on the starboard side of the maindeck. Themainyard performed precisely the same operation for the mainstay that the foreyard did for the forestay, and the mainmast next fell aft on the starboard side of the quarter-deck, the masthead falling over the side just at the break of the poop The masthead broke off about twelve feet below the cap. About this time the sea, which had been running high, rose over the bowsprit, and broke it off short, about Bix feet outside of the gammoning board, carrying away the figurehead, trail boards,'&c. The whole of the damage just recorded was done within the limits of a single hour, and Captain Marshall alleges from no other apparent cause than the employment of inferior material in the ironwork of the ship. The wreck as speedily as possible was cut adrift, to prevent the ship's hull sustaining any damage, as she was rolling very much, and taking in large quantities of water over all. The helm was secured a-!ee, with two lifeboat covers and a skylight cover spread in the weather mizen rigging from the deck to the top, to keep the ship to. Having no sail set all night, the crossjack yard parted the mizen stay, but the mast being wood did not break. , The pnmps were • sounded through thp night, but it was found that the ship was found making little or no water. Ou Friday, April 3rd, a good deal of wreck was still clinging to the ship's hull, and the wind being from S. to S.W., caused a very high sea, in which the ship rolled heavily. On examination it was found that the figurehead and head rails were gone, one pump was crashed, four boats were destroyed, aud another boat was stove, so that there in fact was only one boat in good order left on the ship. None of the lower rigging bars were broken, the main deck was stove in in one place "and seriously chafed in others, and rails, stanchions, and bulwarks were also much injured. All hands, however, worked cheerily for a fortnight to get rid of the oroken masts and yards, and the ship was jury-rigged as weR, and as quickly as possible, with the materials available. Even with her imperfect and very incomplete rig, the ship has behaved herself admirably, and on two separate occasions she made 192 miles per day. During this period of distress two full-rigged ships passed close to the Cambridgeshire without takiug notice of her. On April 30th, in lat. 39deg. and long. 139 deg. 56min. E., the American barque Ellsworth, of Boston, from New York to Melbourne, spoke the dismasted ship, and kindly sent a boat to her, making offer of assistance. The same offer was made by the barque Belted Will, of Sunderland, twelve days out from Sydney to Colombo, which was spoken on May Ist. The Cambridgeshire passed Cape Otway on Saturday, and was towed through the Heads at noon yesterday.