CASUALTIES AT SEA.
TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE OF A NEW I ZEALAND TRADER. | By Telegraph.—Prose Association.—Copyright | Stdnet, May 19. | The brigantine Lady Robinson, which | left the Clarence River on 29th April for i Westport, timber-laden, and was picked up S by a tug, having lost her rudder, had a|p terrible experience. For 12 days she wasg battered about at the mercy of the waves, being dismasted and leaking badly. Thep crew was worn out with pumping, audS short of food, and had to crowd in a cabin p eight feet square. • H The ship Crown of India, which was seen Si in distress off the Solitary Islands, has been IS dismasted, and is being towed in. {| Beoeived May 19. 10.20 p,m. Sydney, May 19. A heavy squall carried the Star of India’sg fore-mainmast away on the night after K leaving Newcaitle. B She was picked up and towed into bar-® hour to-day, having been knocking about® helplessly for l-i days. She was un-g manageable and rolled heavily. fe Everything was swept off her decks. g
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 3438, 20 May 1898, Page 3
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