SIX FATHOMS DEEP
KETCH EDNA A TOTAL WRECK HOW THE VESSEL WAS LOST BY TBLJIGRiPH.-— PRESS ASSOCIATION. Auckland, February 4. Details of the loss of the Edna show that a northern storm with heavy rain squalls raised a considerable sea. The weather was thick and dirty, an;! no land could be seen, when shortly before 11 a.m. breakers were sighted a short distance to leeward. The vessel was under reduced sail, more being set to trv and beat to sea. bttt the vessel drifted on to a sandspit. Captain Burke and Ins two men. after landing, remained near at hand in the hope of salvage, spending the night in the scrub, but the storm prevented any action during the night. The Edna'slipped off the sandspit on tlm ebbing tide, sinking in six fathoms of water. Tho Edna is considered a total loss, and it is doubtful ir the cargo of gelignite can be recovered.
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Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 119, 5 February 1923, Page 6
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154SIX FATHOMS DEEP Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 119, 5 February 1923, Page 6
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