SALVING A DERELICT. HIS LAST HANDKERCHIEF. A WEEK END JOE !

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17486, 2 June 1920, Page 8

SALVING A DERELICT.

HIS LAST HANDKERCHIEF.

A WEEK END JOE !

BARQUENTINE' RETRIEVER. PICKED UP BY ' THE TALUNE. Particulars' of the salving of the barquentine Retriever by tho steamer Talune were received in Auckland yesterday. The Retriever, a wooden three-wasted barqucntine of 547 tons, was abandoned on March 31 in a water-logged condition off the Marquesas Island*/, in the Eastern Pacific, while en route from Puget Soun-1 to Peru with 500,000 feet of timber.. , She encountered very bad weather, and laboured very heavily, the continual chafing of the standing rigging 011 the deck cargo resulting in the masts carrying away. . The master and crew then abandoned the vessel and took to the lifeboats, reaching Tahiti safely on April 15. Nothing further was heard of the barquentine until May 15, when the Talune, bound from Raiatea to Papeete, sighted her. She was water-logged, and wreckage .was strewn everywhere. Thy foremast was still standing, but the mainmast and the mizzen-mast were both carried away. Tha deck cargo was awash, and it was evident that only the timber she carried was keeping her afloat. The chief officer and six members of the Talur.e's crew boarded the derelict and the steamer took it in tow and proceeded to Paoeeto. On the following night heavy weather set in, and the towline broke, The conditions were too,bad to allow another towline to be made fast, and those on board the barquentine were compelled to remain there until the next day. A fairly big sea was running, and during the night part of the deck cargo was washed overboard, while the mizzenmast, which was hanging over the side when the barquentine was picked up, broke adrift. On Monday, May 17, another towline was made fast, Papeete I being reached without further mishap that evening. • Tho captain and mate of the Retriever were at Papeete when the Talune left, but the crew had all been sent back to Sap Francisco. Tho hull of the barquentine is bad If damaged. She had drifted nearly 400 miles. Four steamers had been searching for her, but all gave up the ta?k as hopeless.

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