DANGERS OF THE DEEP

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6137, 18 February 1907, Page 5

DANGERS OF THE DEEP

A NORTH SEA HURRICANE. TWO STEAMERS BELIEVED TO HAVE FOUNDERED. By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright. (Received February 17, 5.14 p.m.) LONDON, February 16. The Leith steamer Movaria, with a crew of nineteen, is believed to have foundered during a hurricane in the North S(ft. A TyneiUtcamor is also supposed to have met I,ho same fate. A STEAMER ASHORE. REFLOATED WITHOUT DAMAGE. (Received February 17, 6.38 p.m.) MELBOURNE, February 17. The steamer Moruya, of 600 tons, bound from Liverpool to Sydney, owned by the Illawarra Company, went ashore in a fog on Friday night near Port Albert, where the crow landed.' At low water the vessel was high and dry, but was refloated yesterday afternoon and proceeded on her voyage. She was apparently uninjured. The Morujm left Liverpool on November 24th, in command of Captain Cornwall, and was at Fremantle on February 2nd. Port Albert is about 170 miles east of Port Phillip, and fifty north-east of IV ilson's Promontory. WKEIOK OF A BARQUE. DUNEDIN, February 18. Tho French barque Marguerite Mirafcand is ashore at Akatore beach, near Milton. The captain and crew of twenty-four are safe, but the ship is much battered The vessel was bound from Rochelle to Tahiti, and had been m a fog for nine days. The sea is very rough. AUCKLAND, February 17. Tho Northern Company’s steamer Paeroa, which arrived from the north to-day, picked up a fishing-boit, numbered “Auckland 28.” off Wangamumu, on Friday., The boat is in good order, but the crew, two Greeks, named John Palmers and John Amnios, are missing. They are supposed to have attempted to make land in their dinghy during a gale, and been drowned., AUCKLAND, February 16. The Nautical Court found that tho wreck of the steamer Awarua was not due to unskilful or negligent navigation on the part of the captain or of tho seaman who was at the wheel. The attention of tho Minister for Marine will be drawn to the fact that when the vessel struck the master had, in accordance with the terms of his employment, surrendered command to the seaman who was at the wheel on the bridge when steering the vessel to her anchorage.