THE RED PINE WRECK

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 58, 10 March 1913, Page 8

THE RED PINE WRECK

SOME ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS. Some additional particulars in regard to the wreck of the steamer Red Pino vi 1 Cook Strait on Friday night last, are supplied by the Press Association. Tha message, which is from Nelson, confirms the information received by the Marine Department, and published in Tho Post on Saturday, to the effect that the wreck occurrfed in D'Urvillo Island. Tho sceno is two inile3 from the spot where the Jano Douglas went down two years ago.. Captain Eden, who was in oharge of the Red Pine, stated that his vessel ran into a fog, but he could see the bush tires burning on D'Urvillo Island, and ■ set a course which, he thought, would take him safely past. Suddenly, howevoi 1 , tho vessel struck a rock and the crew had barely time to get / away as they stood. Tho only boat that could be launched stood by until daylight, and then made for the shore. The castaways were well treated by the settlers. The crow, who lost till their money and effects, went on to Nelson 'by tho Arahura. Tho Red Pine, which was a wooden vessel, was built last year at the yards of Mr. R. Davis, Blaokwall, New South Wales. Her principal dimensions were: Length 147 ft, length over all 153 ft, moulded breadth ii9ft, moulded depth 10ft 9in, draught fully loaded, about 9ft 6in. Tho boiler and main engines were supplied and fitted by Messrs. Wildridge and Sinclair, of Pitt-street, Sydney. The machinery consisted of a set i of compound surface condensing engines, with cylinders 16 and 33 in diameter, with 21in stroke. The vessel had a multitubular boiler, with three furnaces, the working boiler pressure being 1301b. Helical geared steam winches and a steam windlass were fitted. The Red Pine was fitted throughout with electric light. It is stated that the Red Pino was the largest craft ever built' in New South Wales. A magisterial enquiry into the_ wreck will bo held as soon as jxjssible, at a placo to be decided upon — probably at j Nulsqn. 1 — —^^—^— —

Messrs. A. L. Wilson and Company will hold a sale on Tuesday at tho residence of Mr. R. Millar, No. 9, Boston-terrace, off Aro-streot, tho «alo commencing »c 1.30