MARINE MISHAPS

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1831, 10 April 1907, Page 52

MARINE MISHAPS

T.£LE TAMAR RIVER COLLISION.

RECOVERING THE DEAD

LAUNCESTON, April 3,

Only two bodies have been recovered from the sunken launch Alice, which was run down in the Tamar river on Monday night by the steamer -Togo. One was terribly mangled, having evidently been struck by the colliding stearner.

Mr McDonald, his wife, two sons, and a daughter are among the drowned.

Mrs Frank McDonald and Miss Pilgrim were sisters. The launch Alice was sunk in a collision four years ago. No lives were then lost. EXPLOSION OF BENZINE. NARROW ESCAPE OF A STEAMER. FREMANTLE, April 3. The steamer Alabama has arrived from the Island of Sumatra, in the Malay Archipelago, with a cargo of 35,000 cases of benzine. When the boat was off Java, the head boatswain and a Chinese carpenter went down tho forepeak with a naked light. A terrific explosion followed. The •Chinaman was blown on deck, shockingly burned, and died two days later. The rest of the Chinese crew, with the firemen, bolted aft when the explosion took place, and left the chief mat© to take the wheel, while the cap-

tain and four European officers played a hose into the bulkhead between th® cargo and the forepeak, to keep it eooL They soon got the fire in the forepeak under control.

The ship’s stores were all destroyed. Had the bulkhead, through which the gas from the benzine came out, become heated, nothing could have saved the ship.

LORD I-lOWE ISLAND WRECKS.

SYDNEY, April 3.

A life-buoy from the barque Annasona, which was wrecked on the Middleton reef on January 19th, has been washed ashore at Shell Harbour.

The Annasona. a barque of 1373 tons, commanded by Captain Blacklock, struck Middleton Reef (about a hundred miles north of Lord Howe Island) at 5 o’clock on the morning of January 19lh. The vessel immediately commenced to fill. An attempt was made to hedge her off, but owing to the rapid rise of water in the vessel she had to be abandoned. THE SUEVIC. LONDON, April 2. 'lhe operation of cutting the Suevie in two has been completed. A large portion of the steamer is being towed to Southampton. LONDON, April 3. The Suevic’s salvaged section is 400 ft long, and is proceeding to its destination on an even keel, with the help of the vessel’s own en'-'inos.