Shipping Casualties

Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 91, 14 October 1889, Page 2

Shipping Casualties

A MAN LOST OVERBOARD. COLLISION AT LYTTELTON HEADS. (By Tslkokafb.l 'unitkd i-beBs association. i Ltttelton, 12th October. During the voyage of the ship Marlborough from London to Lyttelton a seaman named Oliver Jor.ea was lost overboard. The accident happened on 14th September, when the vessel was in 42deg south, dtjdepr east. He was aloft on the fore-royal yard taking in sail, as a gale of wind was expected, while the vessel was running before a freshening breeze and a high sea at the rate of 13 knots. It was dark at the time, and the man was not seen to fall, but upon being missed it transpired that some of the crew who were working on the foretop heard what they thought a blook strike close to them, then fall below. It appears probable that this was the man. Nothing could be dono to Bearch for him. The vessel would be about three or fonr miles from the spot when the man was missed. A short time afterward the gale was at its height. The deceased was a native of Buckingham, and aged 26. Ho joined the vessel at London on her last visit. At 5.30 a.m. to-day, when the ship Margaret Galbraith was off tho Heads awaiting the pilot, a collision took place between her and the tag Lyttelton. The ship was lying in the wind at the time, and there was a slight sea on. The tag, with Captain Galbraith on board, was m the act of coming round to allow of lowering a boat for the purpose of putting the pilot on board the sailing vessel. It seems that the ship was caught by a puff of wind, and came with a sea right on to the tug, on which vessel the engines had been reversed. The danger of the cloaa proximity of the two vessels was apparent to the pilot, who had given the order, and the Btarboard Bide of the ship amidehip was struck by the bow of the steam tug, doing some damage. The bulwark plates and the end covering boards have been burst inwards ; the npper and second plate are cracked, the former very badly, the latter only at the top ; and the bulwark and rail are Braashed. The tug has not escaped. Her stem is broken, fvnd the cntwatsr for about 3ft in turned to the ritr l 't, the joining plate to that point being slightly opened. They cannot give an estimate of the damage until i an investigation is made.