REPORTED SUNK. BUT SAFELY IN PORT

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2492, 19 June 1915, Page 6

REPORTED SUNK. BUT SAFELY IN PORT

STEAMER SOUTH PACIFIC IN WELLINGTON. Peculiar interest is attached to tie visit to Wellingtoi of tho steamer South Pacific, as she was previously reported to have' 1 heen, sunk by a German submarine off the Isle of Arran towards the end of March or the beginning of April. Captain J. H. x Meerix, her master, told a Dominion reporter that his arrival at New York had caused a mild sensation. He left Glasgow 7, hound for New York in ballast, on May 29, and when the vessel had been out a few days it was reported that she bad been torpedoed. Inquiries were made at Lloyd s, the Admiralty, and elsewhere without result. Tho South Pacific arrived safely at New York,'and when the pilot boarded !her ho would not believe that she was the real South Pacific before he had examined the ship's papers. Even tho agents could not belieye that she was the same vessel. When Captain Meerix visited the managing agent that person was more than delighted to see him. The vessel cleared New York on May 8, passed through the Panama Canal on May 15, and arrived at Wellington early yesterday morning for bunker coal and water, after a rough passage ooming down from Pit-cairn Island.. The South Pacific con-, tinued her journey on to Melbourne and Sydney last evening.