A BARQUE WRECKED.
THREE OF THE CREW DROWNED.
By Telegraph,—Press Association. —Copyright. Received February 11 , 1.10 a.in. Brisbane, February 10.
The barque Sarah S, Ridgway, which left Newcastle for Singapore with a cargo of coal, has been wrecked on New Bellona Reef. The wreck occurred on January 20. The captain and his wife with the surviving members of the crew arrived at Bundaberg yesterday, after being five days in a boat.
Strutter and Bailey, seamen, and Olsen, carpenter, were washed overboard from the barque and drowned. Reatols, one of the crow, had his log broken, and has been removed to the Hospital. Tho barque was dismasted, and sprang a leak during tho gale. She \Vas abandoned iii a sirildllg condition:
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New Zealand Times, Volume LVII, Issue 2432, 11 February 1895, Page 2
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