WRECKS AT SEA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9418, 17 August 1907, Page 4

WRECKS AT SEA.

THE CONSTANCE CRAIG. OOEW OF THE MISSING VHBBEL. [press association.l GISBORNii, August 16. The Constance Craig was owned bjr Captain Kennedy and Mr E. T. Crisp, jf Gisborne. The crew awtc :—: — Cuptain — Finlay Peterson (Sydney) ; mate, E. Peterson (Sydney); second matei, H. Lewis (Angletea), B god 48; McDonald. A.8. ; H. Hanseu, aged 28; T. Brown (Perth). 26; M. Keogh (Liverpool), 24; J. Ntlson, sailmakor (Liverpool), aged 46; A. Stcfin, R. Roberts, T. Mackin (cook and steward), A. Maddun, Norway, 34. Tliie QorstancQ Oaig was formerly known as the Marguerite. Tli«j foHowing joined her here to replace <$hero transferred to the barquectine lima: — Lewis, Mallan, Hain^'on, Prown, Keogh, and Nelspm. The vessel was insured for £52500 in the North C'ueeLslsnd office, and the loss woufd be quite £3000 above that. When here last the Constance Craig was given a comipfcite outfiw of now soils, tiw old &u4t having suffered damage during a storm. Mr P»ridgfer, chftef officer, left her at Giaborne to go up iir examination, and was to join the barque at Hiakianga.' WELLINGTON, August 16. Captain fcchnltz, of die harquentine Mary Isabel, now in Wellington, was formerly master of the QonEtajice Craig. Ho says iho captain of thje laiOter vessel was Finlay Morrison, not Peterson. Ho was a native of Orkney Islands, and loaves a wife and two children now in Melbourne. THE LOSS OF THE INGEBORG. CAITAIX FAITHFUL TO HIS TRUST. EUNEDIN, Avgusjfc 16. While the Ingleborg was at Dunedin, Captain Schmidt told Mr MoKer, Danish Conng, that the youth Gottfriedson was wteiH ownectrd at Copenhagen, his father being captain, of h steamer trading between Denmark and Iceland. Jusfc before the Ingleborg left Catiegat, Captain Schmidt received a latter feom Captain Gottfriedsyn, asking him to keep an eye on tihe lad, and the caMes thow how faithfully he tried to execute tho trus6. The vessel was inured for £4000. Cnptain Sclimidt had an eighth share in her. WRECK OF THE YSABELI SYDNEY, Arguut 16. The Couit found Captain Legge, the master, tad Richard Finch, the mate, responsible for the wreck «f fcho Ysabel, and I. ordered thiem to show cause why tiheir oartrficatos should not be dealt witfi.