STEAMER ASHORE.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1866, 10 March 1913, Page 5

STEAMER ASHORE.

ALL HANDS SAVED. fPress Association. —By Telegraph. Wellington, Yesterday. The steamer Red Pine, built in Sydney last year for the West Coast timber trade, has been wrecked on Stephens' Island during a dense fog. All hands were saved. The vessel was of 364 tons and owned by a Greymouth firm. LATER NEWS. Wellington, Saturday. Later advices relative to the wreck of the steamer Red Pine received at eleven o'clock last night state that she was laden with 1,340,000 feet of timber, and 40 tons of coal for Wellington, shipped at Greymouth. A telegram received by the Marine Department says that the vessel struck a rock off D'Urville Island, not Stephen's Island as first reported. The captain and crew have arrived at French Pass and will come on to Wellington by the Awaroa to-night. The Red Pine was of 364 tons gross, 185 tons net, and was built of wood for the Pine Steamship Coy., of Greymouth, and insured in Sydney in the British Dominions Co., and partly re-insured in the Queensland Coy. STEERED BY BUSH FIRES. THE CAPTAIN'S STORY. Nelson, Last Night. The Arahura brought to Nelson yesterday the crew of the steamer Red Pine, which was wrecked on Cape Stephens on Friday night, two miles from the scene <->f the wreck of the Jane Douglas, which occurred a couple of years ago. Capt. Eden states that he ran into a fog, but could see bush fires on D'Urville Island and set a course which he thought would take the vessel safely past. Suddenly, however, she struck a rock and sank so quickly that the crew had barely time to get away as they stood. Only one boat could be launched. It stood by till daylight and then made for shore, where the castaways were hospitably treated by settlers.

The crew had been paid on the previous day so they consequently lost all their money and other effects.