LOSS OF THE SCHOONER MARY VaN EVERY.

Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1753, 18 March 1874, Page 2

LOSS OF THE SCHOONER MARY VaN EVERY.

We regret to have to announce the total wreck, on the Molyneux bar, of the handy little, schooner *lary Van Every, long zime a regular trader oat of this port. he intelligence was first conveyed to Captain Thomson, the Harbor-master, in a telegram despatched on Saturday afternoon by Mr John Barr, Deputy Harbor-master at Port Molyneiix, and was briefly couched as follows :— "Mary Van Every a total wreck; crew, saved. It will be remembered that the Mary Van Every left here on the 23rd of last month. with a cargo of railway iron for the Molyneux. She reached her destination in due course, and after discharging and loading made an attempt to leave on her return trip on Friday evening last. It was then that she came to grief, and the particulars of the disaster have been supplied us byCapt Urquart, of the steamer Lady of the Lake, which, left the Molyneux at the same time, with the unfortunate schooner in tow. The schooner was drawing 7ft 6in, whilst tb« steamer drew 6ft. The tide was a quarter ebb, and a nasty sea was running on the bar. The steamer took the bar fair end on, but when at about the centre of it Bhe grounded, and at the same time the schooner took the ground just inside the bar. The next sea lifting the steamer, sho forged ahead, and the. sudden jerk snapped the tow rope. Thus the schooner was left at the mercy of the rollers, and her fate was not long in doubt, for a succession of seas struck her broadside on and cast her up on the rocky beach south of^ the bar. Here as we infer from the telegram to Captain Thomson, she became a total wreck-on Saturday. Very shortly after she grounded, ' the crew took to the boat and escaped safely to shore. M eantime the Lady of 'the Lake steamed across the bar, and then turned back with the intention of assisting the schooner, but when re-crossing the bar' she again took, the ground, and perceiving that the case of the schooner was hopeless, Captoin.Urquhart was fain, for the safety of his own vessel to get her outside again as Boon as possible. A s luck would have it, the seas slewed her .round .right end foremost, and so" facilitated her esdajje from what was undoubtedly a position of great dancer. By this time the flchoonef 'a crew) had left her. The Mary Van Every was a Stewart's Islan^; r built^Teßsel, .and about, 1,0 years old. She 'was a faithful little craft, anclw as onco owned by Mr, Findlay of. .this town ; latterly ' l Captain I>awßon; her master, has owned a large ; interest; in her. We do ..not know : whetfcar ahe is' insured or not.~Dd% Ttma,