WRECK OF THE MIOWERA.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1130, 27 October 1893, Page 36

WRECK OF THE MIOWERA.

San Francisco, October 18. News has been received here that Messrs Huddart, Parker and Co.'s steamer Miowera, which left Sydney for Vancouver on 19th September, struck on the rocks at the entrance to Honolulu harbour at 8 o'clock on the night of the 2nd October. Tugs failed to move the vessel, and the attempt of an American warship to tow her off was also unsuccessful. Faint hopes are entertained of saving her as she lies in a dangerous position, and will break up if bad weather is experienced. The steamer is resting amidships, and her rudder-post is gone. She makes little water.

The cargo' Was saved in good .coildiiidii, and her supply of coal has been jettisoned The mails and passengers have arrived in San Francisco, Mr Huddart expects to be able to maintain an unbroken time-table from Australia. San Francisco, October 19. The Miowera lies in lift of water. The Miowera entered the harbour passage while the pilot was lighting the buoys at 8 o'clock on the evening of October 2. Her engines are uninjured. Five tugs and steamers tried to get her off without success. Lloyd's fear that she will become a total wreck, owing to her stern being immovable. The Australia conveyed her passengers and mails to San Francisco. London, October 19. The Times says the disaster to the Miowera proves the urgent need of a Pacific cable. Lloyd's agent telegraphs that it is practically hopeless to float the Miowera without serious damage. The insurance premium now demanded is 80 guineas. London, October 22. An Australian steamer is to take up the running of the Miowera, and will leave Sydney for Vancouver on the 17th proximo. The Miowera is well-known in New Zealand, having traded last summer with that other fine steamer the Warrimoo between this Colony and Australia. Captain Stott, formerly of the Union Steam Ship Company's Eotprua, commanded the Miowera. The wrecked vessel was a steel twin-screw steamer rigged as a three-masted schooner, her dimensions being—Length, 357 ft over all; extreme breadth, 42|ft ; moulded depth, 28ft—giving a gross tonnage of 3320 and a net tonnage of 2270. The boilers and engines were constructed by the Wallsend Shipping and Engineering Company. She was a splendid ship, with most complete accommodation and fittings, and cost L 90.000.