LOST AT SEA.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 784, 6 April 1910, Page 7

LOST AT SEA.

'.*/ / ■ * gV ■ *. . ONLY TH^CABIN-BdY,'WAS »A" SAVED. * .-,■ v BARQUE R'ATE THOMAS. By T«kgraph-Press Association-Copjrleht . London, April 4. Tho iron four-masted barqiio Kate Thomas; 1748 'tons gross, bound from Antwerp to Port Talbot, Wales, sunk at Land's End after being in collision with another vessel. ' Niuoteen persons were drowned, including -the wives of the captain and chief officer. A cabin-boy was tho only survivor. [Tho Kate Thomas was built -in 1885 by W. Dosford and Smis, : Sunderland. She belonged to the Kate Thomas Sailing Ship Company (AV. Thomas, 'Boris, and Co., Ltd.), and her port of registry was Liverpool. l Her dimensions were": Length, 258 feet'; breadth, ■ 39ft. sin.; depth; 23ft. liri/j "

PERICLES' CHART.v SAVED, ALONG WITH THE SHIP'S ;. t . , ■ . PAPERS./' Perth, April 5iZ The ship's papers, the official log-: book, and the chart in use at the time of the disaster were saved from the Pericles. ." . ' : . The chief steward also saved all the valuables that had. been entrusted to hini by the passengers for the voyage. The : tug Vigilant, after the disaster, experienced terrible weather. She was under water half tho time. She saw a large quantity of apples and other cargo from, the wreck strewn about. I COUNTESS OF RANFURLY WRECKED. -.-'■' ——— AT NEW CALEDONIA. Sydney, April 5. Advice has been received, that the wooden 'three-ma-sted schooner Countess, of Ranfurly, 193 tons gross, while vovr aging from Sydney : to New Zealand, was wrecked on tho coast of NewCah> donia. No particulars are available.. [The Countess of Ranfurly was formerly owned by the New Zealand Government and was engaged in the Island trade. She now appears in Lloyd's as owned by G. L. S, Kerr. She was : fitted with auxiliary engines, and was built in 1901 at Auckland by Messrs. Lane and Brown. Dimensions: Length, 112.7 ft.; beam, 25.1 ft.; depth; 10.8 ft.] / " ' '——'" ■' . presumed that crew are .safe. ■■: ; ' (Rec. April 6, 0.30 a.m.) ... Sydney, April 5: ,The schooner Countess of Ranfurly was engaged in the New Hebrides trade; and was en route to Vila when the disaster occurred on the south coast of New Caledonia.

As the agents' advices simply •■ announce the wreck, without mentioning the crew,' it is inferred that the latter are safe. The schooner had a genera] cargo, which was insured'for. £1500, and the hull' was insured for £2500, : both in the United Office). MISSING SHIP: CAUSE NOT KNOWN, ' London,-April 4; A Board of Trade inquiry failed to discover the cause of the disappearance of'the ship Australian while on'a voyage from Mazatlan,. Mexico, to'' Svdnev in 1908: :-, " ' ■'■ '