THE DISABLED STEAMER STRATHNEVIS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10034, 22 January 1896, Page 5

THE DISABLED STEAMER STRATHNEVIS.

THE MIOWERA'S EXPERIENCES. Press Association.-Electric Telegraph.—Copyriid

Sydney, January 21. A passenger describes the picking up of the disabled steamer Strathnevis by the Miowera. The vessel had been long missing, having left Victoria, British Columbia, i on October 13, with 165 Chinese passengers, and 39 of a crew, bound for Japan. When 1700 miles out she lost her propeller during a heavy gale, and drifted away for sixty days on the great Japan current. Provisions ran out, and those on board were living on flour and tinned salmon, which comprised the cargo. At the rate the vessel was drifting she would have been on the American coast in ten days. The Miowera got a tow-line out, but it parted the same night. 'She then stood by the disabled vessel, bub a tremendous sea prevented a second line being brought into use for 42 hours. Eventually a volunteer crew from the Miowera launched a boat and got hold of the line. The wind afterwards increased to hurricane force, and the hawser being unable to stand the strain snapped cff. The sea was so terrific that it seemed as if the Miowera's engine room would be flooded. The wind carried the vessel so near the lee shore prior to the cables parting that the Miowera headed seaward, and the strain on her was so heavy that her stem was brought under water at times. When the cables parted the Miowera lost sight of the Strathnevis, and after cruising about for many hours next day she abandoned the search, and proceeded on her voyage. Those on board only heard of the safety of the Strathnevis on arrival here.