WATER – LOGGED BARQUE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14224, 22 November 1909, Page 5

WATER - LOGGED BARQUE.

HIPPOLAS ABANDONED. ."'__—- ... IpQTjND BY THE TAKAPUNA. f:X ■ _ FOUNDERS WHILE IN TOW. . . - .■■ tor TELEGRAPH.— press ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Sunday. ♦fas Takapuna, which arrived to-day from Nelson, via Picton, picked up the jerque* Hippolas, water-logged, at three lp til. on Saturday, on the Jackson's Head vide* of the French Pass. The Hippolas had 6ft of water in her, and she was flyin'„ the signal "immediate assistance," and when boarded by the chief officer of ' "C e Takapuna and a party of her crew, was found to be deserted. ■ A quantity of used distress signals were lying about, and there was every indication that she had been left in a hurry. ' ■The barque's boats and the belongings of . crew had gone. '' !Using the barque's wire line and her "'own hawser, the Takapuna commenced to Itow the Hippolas. This she did for five r ihocTS, hen the , water 'in the barque 'gained rapidly on the ship's pumps. ; The |" Iflippolas gave an ugly lurch, which acted ; !»s » warning to the skeleton crew on Lard her from the Takapuna. All hands •took to their boats, and the alarm was 'sounded to the Takapuna to cease towing : jis the barque was sinking. :">;; Captain -Stewart stood by at the stem If "the Takapuna, and with a hatchet, severed the tow lines just as the Hippolas {took her final plunge. The Hippolas sank K (opposite Pig Island homestead, within Wee-quarters of an hour's run to Picton, jo 35 fathoms of water. I The Takapuna's crew doing duty on the iHippolas had just time to leap over into the steamer's boat alongside, before the 1 barque disappeared bow first. ' It: is believed that the barque's crew have reached one of the homesteads in : ihe sounds, or may have been picked up iKy some steamer. ! 'The Hippolasf was bound from Timaru ;• itoKaipara in ballast. She was commandled by Captain Norris, formerly of the jkarquentine Jap. Captain Norris joined ' fche Hippolas recently at Clarence River. \ ' -.-

VESSEL STRIKES A ROCK. CREW SAFE AT PICTON. < [BT telegraph.— ' association.] Wellington, Sunday Midnight. j 'The crew of the barque Hippolas have (bwa-picked up by the steamer Elsie, and {landed at Picton, all well. They report ithat the Hippolas • struck Walker Rock at o'clock on Saturday morning,, and immediately commanced to *■:' make water (rapidly./ J The crew therefore left to seek and shortly after saw the SXakapuna -take the Barque in tow.

[ ? The Hippolas was well-known in these j ■waters, having visited" Auckland on several occasions" with coal from Newcastle. She [was a wooden vessel of 363 tons' register, . ■' ■' land was btdlt in 1892 by A. i Remertsen, of jLilfesand. Her principal dimensions were jasioUows*:— 127 ft - 4in; breadth, {29ft 2in; and depth, 13ft., The barque was tfonhatiy in : command of Captain ; WHfcton. jWhfla tying at the wharves at Wellington .pome months ago the Hippolas caught fire «ad had several of her sails burnt.