ALL ON BOARD VENTURA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20646, 19 August 1930, Page 12

ALL ON BOARD VENTURA.

TRANSFER IN SHIP'S BOATS. )i PORTION OF MAILS LOST. // ' The Union Steam Ship Company's mail liner Tahiti, 7898 tons, after twenty-six ( years* service at sea, foundered in the Pacific, south of Rarotonga, at about 5 o clock 1 yesterday afternoon (New Zealand time). f l , i The passengers and Captain A. T. Toten and his crew were transferred to the I Ventura, which arrived on the scene soon after daybreak. The passengers were taken ojf in the ships boats in the morning and the crew followed in the afternoon. The inrush of water as the result of the leak which developed on Saturday morning continued during Sunday night and at 5 o'clock yesterday morning the engineroom was flooded. The water continued to rise and at 9 o'clock a start was made with the work of abandoning ship. This was accomplished without accident. The Tahiti s letter mail and light baggage were taken off in the ship's boats but it was found necessary to leave Behind the heavy mails, comprising newspapers, packets, and parcels and heavy luggage. • Six bags of letter mail were lost during the transfer and fifty bags are wet. The Ventura is now proceeding to Pago Pago. . Here the Tahiti s passengers for the .Islands will be disembarked. The Ventura will then go on to San Francisco and will take the Tahiti's passengers for America and Europe with her. The Tofua has been diverted and will pick up the Tahiti's Islands passengers and crew at Pago Pago.