TEBRIBLE SUFFERINGS ON A WATER-LOGGED VESSEL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6296, 21 January 1882, Page 7

TEBRIBLE SUFFERINGS ON A WATER-LOGGED VESSEL.

.Recently one of the; crew of the Grennock barque Eveline arrived at Liverpool and gave particulafs:of;.the .abandonment of his vessel in the Atlantic' Ocean after the crew had undergone great sufferings. From the statement of that man, who is a German, and was formerly carpenter of the Eveline, it appears that the vessel left Quebec on the sth October for Leith with a'cargo of timber. Fine weather was experienced for the first few days of the journey, after which a succession of st<jnn3 set in, accompaoied by tremendously high seas. The vessel was knocked about terribly, and finally sprang a leak. The men kept at the pumps steadily 1 and constantly for three days and three nights, until the pumps gave out and became useless. The operations, however, had not the effect of freeing the vessel of water, which at last was level with the deck, the after planks of which were burst np. The seas came dashing over the vessel, washing her deck cargo aft, and finally carried it for tne most part overboard. The men at last could not gain admittance to their quarters in the forecastle, and were compelled to take refuge in the rigging. The poor fellows here waited the turn events would take. They could only obtain one small cask of fresh water and a few biscuits. A signal of distress was hoisted, and on the Saturday, after the men had been four days in the rigging, a steamer hove in sight. For some time it was uncertain whether the steamer had seen the sinking vessel, during whiclv time the men exhibited a painful anxiety. The steamer, however, bore down upon them and launched one of her boats. She turned out to be the Australia, going from Boston to London. Notwithstanding the dangerous and difficult nature of the task, the whole of the men, to the number of 17, were rescued by two trips of,the Australia's boats. On the Wednesday previous to the abandonment of the Eveline one of the crew, an A.8., called Frank, died. He was an Englishman. The man at the wheel of the Eveline had to bo lashed to his post to prevent his being washed off with the sea. The waves were at this time dashing over every part of the vessel, and one of thein washed the man at the wheel over the side, where he was found suspended by the ropes.