THE WRECK ON SKIPPER ISLAND
(HI TEI.EORAPIJ.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) ' AUCKLAND, 10th August. Further particulars are' to hand of the wreck of the Te Teko, on Skipper Island, near .Tairua, on Friday night. All accounts point to an exceptionally heavy gale on. Friday night. The master of one scow that readied Auckland yesterday ■characterised it as the heaviest gale that he had ever come "through. He actually saw the lost vessel' about 4 o'clock on. the afternoon of Friday.' Captain Hammond, of the /Northern . Company, went down to Mercury Bay last night with a v>view to seeing if salvage is possible. He telegraphs, however, that heavy seas make it impossible to get the steamer across to Skipper Island, and she has gone back to Mercury Bay, where she will remain "until the weather is suitable for viewing the wreck. This- is the fourth wreck in the vicinity of Skipper Island. Twelve years ago the scow Surprise -.was 'wrecked there, with.the'lois'of four lives. Four yenrs later the gcow Triumph hit the rocks there, and was salved, while a year aa;o the steamer Wairoa was wrecked* on. the' Tairua bar.
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Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 36, 11 August 1920, Page 9
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