THE SYDNEY WRECK.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LI, Issue 9101, 25 May 1906, Page 7

THE SYDNEY WRECK.

SYDNEY, May 25. The vessel ashore at Manly is the French barque Vencennes, from Yokohama.," in balast for .orders. She arrived off the Heads yesterday afternoon and signalled for a pilot. A gale was raging and the weather was too thick for the signals to be seem at the pilot station' and the barque gradually drifted ashore at Ocean Beach, where she lies broadside on an even keel, embedded in the sand. Shortly after she struck four of the crew managed to Teach tb» shore in a boat, greatly exhausted. The pilot steamer went to the scene but the sea was too rough to render any assist / ance and stood by. This morning t. t « ireather is calm. At low water it it almost possible to walk aboard the stranded vessel. There is about four feet V>i water -where she Ires settled in the sand. There aie good prospects, of salving th« vessel if the weather holds good. The balance of the crew remain aboard.