A SHIP ASHORE.
PROBABLY A TOTAL WRECK. By Telegraph Press Association Copyright. (Received May 8, 1.11 a.m.) Noumea, May 7. Tut; Alameda, a Norwegian ship, in ballast. bound from Melbourne to Nehoue, to load chrome ore, ran ashore on the main reef at the south end of this island last Wednesday. The captain and five of the crew arrived in a lifeboat to-day, and the rest of the crow followed in three boats. The vessel is half-full of water, Mid will probably be a total wreck.
The Alameda is a wooden vessel of 1409 tons register, mid arrived at Melbourne on March 12 from St. John's, New Brunswick, with cargo of timber, on discharge of which she sailed for New Caledonia to load chrome ore for Europe.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12860, 8 May 1905, Page 5
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127A SHIP ASHORE. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12860, 8 May 1905, Page 5
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