The Medora in a Typhoon.

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 22, 10 December 1874, Page 7

The Medora in a Typhoon.

The following respecting the barque Medora, of Lyttelton, is extracted from the * Hong Kong Times ' : of October 9:— .

The British barque Medora reports* —Left Foo-cboo, September Id, Sound for t)unedin. At 1 6 p.m. oh -'September 28 strong gusts of wind came on, furled mainsail, duringrwhich time split upper fore-topsail, shortly after foot rope 6f foresail blew away ;~8 p.m. ship under two 'Close-reefed topsails; 11.30 wind Veered to N.N.E., .tyore ship, '* could not start the sails.' of they would have blown away, ship being only twenty -five miles off shore of Yama Island, which was bearing S.S.Ey and oh a lee shore ; stove in bulwarks, and started spars on deck, sea making a complete breach over all; 29th, 6 a.m., lower fore- topsail blew away; 8 a.m.-, ship On her beam ends, lee side of her combings being under Water; at 10 a m., bar. 28.80, wind still increasing, and barometer falling Very rapidly, the typhoon increasing with such fury,' : had torcut away misseh; and:,mainrtppmast which righted, the. vessel a little, .'then cut away fore^topmast ';'. at. 9.30, bar* omefer began to rise and blew so hard that had to batten all hands down below, ship right under Water With nothing'but the three lower masts standing; " Stj.m, when the barometer had risen four-tenths it blew something ferrinc ■'. it was supposed that the fore and, main., yards had gone away during the 'fime.^ 5 p in., wind taking off a little"; inidnigh, squally, with terrific sea ; *$t)th k gale decreasing rapidly, sea Very high, all Jjands securing fore, Main, 'and .mizen masts,, bar. 28.40. , After .this the. weather commenced to clear, and made; all possible sail for this port,, and had fine weather, with N.E. monjßo'dn to arrival. -