AN OCEAN WAIF.
The British iron ship Jessie Osborne (which was'in Auckland about two years ago), which ran 'ashore at Tennessee Cove, four miles north' of the Heads, on the night of Sunday, September 15,' 1878, has been rebuilt. She was 'sob! on the 18th of September to Coodall, Perkiris'andCo.jfor 2450 dollars, having been abandoned by her crew the day previous. Having struck upon a rock, her keel and side were '•' wrenched out. She was, subsequently, floated 5 off, and brought into port and repaired; Having obtained permission of the Government; her owners have rechristonod her* the- Mariposa. She was built at Dumbarton, Scotland, in 1874, and was formerly owned by W. and A. Brown, of Glasgow, and was' rated Al clipper ship, and valued at £83^000; : She is 221 feet in length, 34 feet in beam, arid measures 20i feet in tho hold. The Mariposa is now lying at Broadway-street wharf , taking in a cargo of wheat consigned to Liverpool^ — California Bulletin.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5384, 17 May 1879, Page 2
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163AN OCEAN WAIF. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5384, 17 May 1879, Page 2
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