ANOTHER STATEMENT.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7742, 13 May 1887, Page 3

ANOTHER STATEMENT.

One ot the Northumberland's crew, who was in the boat when the Boojnin capsized, gives the following account :— The Boojum turned over soon after otir boat was lowered, ami when we were quite close to the ship. I shouldn't describe her as broadside on, as it seemed to me that she had! her head partly to the waves, and wlion ■Uu was struck the bow was hit lirct. She disappeared altogether, and I thought she was swamped, but presently slits Showed her bottom, the screw goin}; ; rouiid in the air. I thought thero would i 'be an explosion, but there wasn't, and\the i fan' kept jsoing round, as I reckon, about ; seven or eight minutes. When she came , up n, man was clinging to her bottomjjiiul i I saw auother in tho v/at&r ! / /^

drifting down towards the ship, and we had to pull away for fear of the boat being smashed. The man on her bottom looked ror-.ul.at us " wistful like," but it was impossible to liol|l him, and we pulled for. the man in the water. We got him, and it turned out to be the engineer. When we looked round the steamer was deeper down, and the man was gone from her that was hanging on. Another man had a line flung to him from the ship, and they seemed to behauHng him up, bnt he dropped off again. Wo saw nobody else in the water, and pulled away to one of the other steamers that came down, and they took us on board and brought us in over the bar. We got in the steamer — it was called the Fairy — one at a time, lying with our bows to her stet-iH and us she lowered in tliij waves a man would jump on board. Everybody has been very kind to us here, and our great trouble is that men should have lost their lives trying to save ours.