PRACTICALLY A WRECK
THE'ATJXIiUUaY' SCHOONER TUHARA:
Ini issqciation.i ■ ■ ':':■■■.:< ■'.;■. .-'■■ Kapler, May 18. T!io aujdliary Ecliooner I'uhara, 97 tons, which was blown ashore while at anchor at. Kinikini, near: Long Point,' Mahia Peninsula, is reported'to bo practically a totalwreck. Captain M'Nab remains near tho scene. .'.Tho remainder of tho crow arrived in Napier this evening.', .. :■' ''_ •-.•■' . ;V .&,> Goodall and A. Nowman, A.B.'s, state, that, owing tea heavy sea,and a-strong wind, tho Tuhara anchored in, the: bight, or' Long Point on Saturday night. Early: on Sunday morning ono of tho anchors,; carried away. The engines wore -then kept going full speed: ahead,- but the .vessel dragged her remaining anchor, which was lost at daybreak, and the vessel was driven broadside'on to the rocks. Sho became fixed whoro she struck. The crew, whohad put on lifebelts, managed to launch the lifeboat, aud a lino was taken ashore. They stood by the ship for'a while, and thon-got their things and,wont to Mr. George Ormond's station, where they wore treated with groat kindness. ( Goodall and Newman describe the sea as mountainous, and say that the crew had a narrow escape. It was lucky for them that they were 'driven *shoro in daylight instead of during tho night. '
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 511, 19 May 1909, Page 9
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