WRECK OFTHE SHIP ST. VINCENT, NEAR PALLISER BAY.
The following telegram appeared in this ! morning's Examiner : — The ship St. Vincent, Captain Barron, which left Wellington in ballast on the afternoon of Saturday last, to load with wool at Canterbury, has been totally wrecked. When off Cape Campbell, on Sunday, at 12 o clock, she was caught in a southerly gale, which caused her to drift towards Palliser Bay, and at halfpast ten o'clock she struck on Taourahiri, the north-west point of Palliser Bay, and soon became a total wreck. The weather was thick and dark at the time. The chief officer and the sailmaker were washed ashore alive, but Captain Barron, nineteen of the crew, (principally shipped at Wellington), and Mr M'Kay, a pas- ! senger, were all drowned. The St. Vincent is a total wreck, all the masts having gone when she first struck. The bodies of Mr M'Kay, and four others have been washed ashore. The chief mate reached ! here this afternoon. i
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 39, 17 February 1869, Page 2
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