THE REPORTED WRECKAGE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13462, 15 April 1907, Page 5

THE REPORTED WRECKAGE.

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The scow Vindex, which was dismasted off Coromandel on April 7, and which vessel subsequently reached Cabbage Hay, was towed up to Auckland on Saturday morning by the auxiliary scow Vesper. Captain W. Biddick, the master of the vesel, states that he left Auckland at noon on April 6, for Coromandel. but the weather coming on very bad from the eastward, the vessel sheltered in Mcbeod's Hay, Waiheke, for the night. The wind coming on from the southward the next morning the vessel resumed her passage. The wind was blowing a gale, with severe squalls at times. At about halfpast two p.m., when off Coromandel, the foremast canned away, going over the side, and it and the rigging and sails were at once cut adrift, for the safety of the vessel. After a somewhat trying experience I he scow was got into Cabbage Bay safely, where she remained until the Vesper came to her assistance.

Captain Biddick is inclined to the opinion that the wreckage reported by the Victory on Friday last belonged to the Vindex. The Vesper picked up the mast and -ails lost by the Vindex in the afternoon of the day when it was sighted by the Victory, about eight miles off the northern lower end of Waiheke.