SHIPS AND SHIPPING

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 53, 13 February 1911, Page 4

SHIPS AND SHIPPING

[PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT.] STEAMER FOUNDERS. St. Petersburg, Feb. 11. The Russian steamer Sturman foundered at Sebastopol in a gale and 41 persons wer-e drowned. SUEZ BLOCKED. London, Feb. 11. Lloyds’ Port Said representative reports that the steamer Caithness is aground and obstructing the canal. GALE ON EAST COAST. Gisborne, Feb. 12. A heavy gale has been raging since Friday night and tremendous seas are running on the coast. No steamer is communicating to-day. The Union Company’s Mokoia, the Squall, and the Haupiri were all compelled to run for shelter at Te Araroa. Even if the Mokoia were here it would be utterly impossible to tender her, as the seas are breaking high over the breakwater and the groyne. The present arrangements are to tender her at noon to-morrow, but unless the weather improves considerably it is possible that the Mokoia will go right on. In the meantime a large number of visitors who attended the races, and sixteen horses are weather bound. The rivers and creeks in the country districts are flooded, and some of the stock drowned. DREDGE FOUNDERS. 26 LIVES LOST. (Received 13. 8.5 a.m.) New York, Feb. 12. A dredge foundered in the Mexican Gulf. A crew of 27 were drowned. An only survivor brought the news.