WRECKED STEAMERS AND “MISSING” VESSELS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2101, 17 November 1880, Page 3

WRECKED STEAMERS AND “MISSING” VESSELS.

We (“ Post ”) are indebted to the courtesy

of Captain Fairchild, commander of the Government steamer Hinemoa, for the following most interesting lists and details of the wrecks and other fatal disasters to shipping which have occurred on and off the New Zealand coast daring the lust thirty years —from 1850 to 1880. Captain Fairchild has been engaged at intervals during the last twenty years in the compilation of this “ black list,” which deserves careful perusal, and contains matter for most serious reflection. The lisfc t of course, is not a complete catalogue of all the disasters which have occurred on the New Zealand coast during the period named, but the three headings under which the vessels are classed will sufficiently explain the scope of the record : Return of Steamers Wrecked in New Zealand, the first being in 1857, giving the name of steamer, where wrecked, probable value, and name of master.

Alexandra, White Olifts. £I4,UOU, vviu.ams Alma, Sumner Bar, £2OOO Airedale, Waitara, £12,000, Kennedy Ada, Motinua, £ISOO Ahuriri, Jones Bluff, £9OOO, M'Kinnon Apbrasia, Bay of Islands, £3OOO, Stewart Ballarat, Hokitika, £2OOO, M'Meckan Bruce, Grey River, £6OOO, Hepburn Bruce, Otago Heads, £16,000, Jones. City of Dunedin, Cook Strait, £15,000, Boyd Cleopatra, Cape Palliser, £ISOO, Palmer Eleanor, Grey River, £IOOO, M'Lean Emu, Motutapu, £IOOO, Kreeffc Express, Riverton, £SOOO, Christian Favorite, Ahipara, £4OOO, Adams Guiding Star, Now River, £SOOO, Fraser Gundagai, Patea, £6OOO, Fox Geelong, Wangape, £3OOO, Keane Halcyon, Foveaux Straits, £ISOO, Duokrass Lord Woreley, Opunake, £15,000, Bowden Lionel, Wangape, £2OOO, Stewart Lady of the Lake, Nugget Point, £2500, Holloway Maid of Yarra, Hokitika, £4OOO, M'Lellan Matau, near Westp >rt. £6OOO, Utquhart New Zealand, Hokitika, £IO,OOO Nelson, West. Wanganui, £BOOO, Dillon Oscar, New River, £IO,OOO

Otago, Ohasland’s Mistake, £25 000, Calder Orpheus, H.M.S., Manukau Bar, £70,000, Barnett Oberon, New River, £6OOO Pride of the Yarra, Otago Harbor, £IOOO, Adams Phoenix, Auckland Wharf, £ISOO, Hardcastle Pioneer, Manukau Bar, £12,00-, Breton Pirate, New River, £IO,OOO Paterson, Waitara, £IO.OOO, Mundle Persevere, Hokitika, £4OOO, M'Meckan Queen, Cook Bock, £15,000, Kreeft Rangitoto, Jackson’s Head, £28,000, Mackay Rangatira, near Taranaki, £7OOO, Harvey Ruby, Hokitika, £IOOO Sturt, Kaiapoi, £ISOO, Dyasoa Samson, Hokitika, £2OOO Star of the Evening, Gable End, £4OOO,

Turner South Australia, Coal Point, £25,000,

Mackay Scotia, Bluff Harbor, £25,000, Gay Tasmanian Maid, Taranaki, £4500, Suter Titania, Hokitika, £3OOO Thane, Grey River, £4OOO, Francis Taiaroa, Molyneaux, £3OOO, McKinnon Tauranga, near Kawatt,. £3OOO, Bolger Taranaki, Kerawha, £l6 000, Malcolm Taupo, Tauranga, £26.000, Cromarty Una, Napier, £ISOO, Warns Uno, West Uoast, £IOOO, MoMeckan Yiotorj, Wickcliff Bay, £12,000, Togood William Denny, North Cape, £12,000,

: Mailar White Swan, Flat Point, £IO.OOO, Harper Wonga Wonga, Grey Biver. .€3OOO, Mundle William Miskin, Timaru, £4OOO, Hepburn Wakool, Hokitika, £IOOO Woodpecker, Paten, £IOOO, Morris Tarra, Hokitika, £2OOO Total lost, 62. Value, £521,000.

Beturn of Vessels that have gone to sea since 1850 which have never been heard of again, all connected with Now Zealand, giving the name of vessel, port of departure, destination, probable value of ship and cargo, and number of lives lost. Abeona, Wanganui to Mauukau, £lloo—7 Argo, Auckland to Bay of Islands, £BOO Briton’s Pride, Tasmania to Wellington, £3OOO —l3 Bonny Lass, Lyttelton to Nelson, £600—5 Blue 8011, Port Underwood to Wellington, £6o—4 v. Burmab, London to Lyttelton, £BO,OO0 —58 Celt, Lyttelton to Wanganui, £1600—7 City of Nelson, Nelson to Taranaki, £IOOO — 6 City of Dunedin, Wellington to Nelson, £15,000—63 Chanticleer, Timaru to Newcastle, £2OO0 —12 Oollingwood, Golden Bay to Nelson, £2OO Cecilia, Ohatharas to New Zealand, £BOO —7 Colleen Bawn, Wellington to Havelock, £l5O —7 Dove, Nelson to Hokitika, £400—6 Dart, Lyttelton to West Coast, £400—5 Dauntless, Timaru to Wellington, £2400—7 Euphrosyne, Port Chalmers to Oamaro, £1700—7 Eleanor, New Zealand to Newcastle, £3400 —l2 Emerald Isle, West Coast to Lyttelton, £500—5 Eliza Simpson, Otago to West Coast, £I9OO —7 Edward, South 1. to North 1,, £BOO Excelsior, Timaru to Wellington, £lßoo—7 Eleanor, South I. to North 1., £l2oo 6 Emma Jane, Hokitika to Manukau, £7oo—B Favorite, Manukau to Hokitika, £450—5 Flying Fish, Napier to Auckland. £600—5 Glenmark, Lyttelton to London, £30,000 —50 Hope, Auckland to Fiji, £200—5 Hinemoa, Auckland to Samoa, £2000—9 Isabella Jackson, Lyttelton to Wv eat Coast, £1200—6 Ivanhoe, Auckland to Fiji, £2OOO —7 Julia, Lyttelton to Patea, £6O0 —6 Jane Ann, Grey to Lyttelton, £4oo 6 J. B. Bussell, .-oath I. to North 1., £2OOO-7 Jubilee, Napier to Auckland, £700—6 Jane Hanna, South to Lyttelton, £Boo—s Kiwi, Hokitika to Manukau, £600—9 Kauri, Fiji to Auckland, £I4OO —8 Kaituna, Havelock to South, £I3OO -6 Kate Williams, Poverty Bay to Auckland, £2200-8 Kate Brain, South I. to North 1., £2OO0 —9 Knowsley Hall, London to Lyttelton, £120,000—75 Miranda, Auckland to Napier, £600—5 Maid of Kent, South I. to North 1., £2030 — 8

Magnet, Melbourne to Grey, £4500—12 Matoka, Lyttelton to London, £70,000 - 45 Maori Queen, Manukau to Hokitika, £3O0 —6 Mary Louisa, Lyttelton to Fiji, £Boo—6 Nebuchadnezzar, Waikato to Manukau, £IOO ——4 Foneke, Grey to Havelock, £I2OO - 7 Polar Star, Auckland to Napier, £IBO0 —9 Pirinini, Wanganui to Pate a, £600—5 Pacific, Lyttelton to Manukau, £ISOO - 8 Pearl, Auckland to Lyttelton, £ISOO - 6 Phantom, Lyttelton to Fiji, £Boo—7 Queen, Fiji to Auckland, £2BO0 —12 Queensland, Newcastle to Lyttelton, £2500 —l2 N Rifleman, Lyttelton to Pidton, £l5O0 —8 Raven, Pioton to Wellington, £30 —4 Scillonian, Napier to South I‘land, £450—6 Sea Serpent, Chatham I. to N Z , £1400—7 Sylph, Hokianga to Auckland, £l5O0 —7 Star of Tasmania, West Coast to Lyttelton, £BOO-6 Sarah, Wellington to Napier, £IOO -4 Settler, Sydney to Hokitika, £4OO0 —20 Trieste, San Francisco to N Z., £BOOO —l2 Triphena, Wairoa to Poverty Buy, £IOO Triumph, South I. to North 1., £2OO - 5 T. S. Mart, Hokianga to Sydney, £40,000 — 40

Union, Newcastle to N.Z., £32,000 —11 Velocidade, Newcastle to Lyttelton, £6OOO —l2 William Alfred, Sydney to Wellington—£3ooo—ll Wairoa, Mannkau to Hokitike, £SOO —5 Wave, Wairoa to Auckland, £lO3 -5 Wairoa, Poverty Bay to South I, £SOO - 6 Wildfire, Hokianga to Auckland, £SOO Young Greek, Porangah.au to Napier, £2OO —4

Total —Vessels, 77; value of ships and cargoes, £503,360; number of lives lost, 844.

Return of vessels which am known to have turned over through ballast shifting or want of sufficient ballast, or being too heavily masted. Charlotte, Olanalpin, Clematis, Duncan Cameron, Dove, Day Dawn, Emerald Isle, Emma, Ebenezer, Edward Stanley, Florence, Firth of Thames, Glympoe, Hawke’s Head, Jane, Maori Queen, Ocean Bird, Noroai, Polar Star, Rapid, Randolf, Sunbeam, Trade Wind, Twilight, Thistle, Uira, William and 1 Mary, Wave, and Wild Wave —Total 29,