AN EVENTFUL VOYAGE.

North Otago Times, 3 September 1910, Page 3

AN EVENTFUL VOYAGE.

* Per Press Association. Dunedin, Sept, 2. The Italian ship Beecroft, which left Marseilles on April 7 for Bluff, Dunedin and Lyttelton, with 825,000 roofing tiles and 624 crates of flooring tiles, arrived to-day after a stormy and eventful passage of 154 days. The ship came into port under, command of Ziovanni Obvari, the first mate, who reports that during a severe storm on the night of August 3rd, when the ship was near Cape Leewin, Captain Pellegro Ferrari, aged 32, was washed overboard and never seen again. At the time of the accident the ship was running under her main lower topsail before a heavy gale, accompanied by snow and .a big following sea. was standing on the poop, when a mountainous sea broke on board and.washed him away. Two men .who were at the wheel were washed forward on to the main deck. The compass went overboard, and the Bhip's boats were smashed and carried away. The night was very dark. Prior to the loss of the captain another death'occurred on board. Shortly after leaving Marseilles a ; sailor named Skjelm, a Norwegian, aged 22, died, the supposed cause being heart disease.