A LINER SUNK

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7017, 4 January 1910, Page 5

A LINER SUNK

IN THREE MINUTES COLLISION IN FOG OFF IRISH COAST AY3IISHIRE BADLY DAMAGED. 3 TWEEVB LASCARS PERISH WITH THEIR SHIP. By TeUarraph—Press Association— Copyright (Received January 3, 9.5 p.m.) LONDON, January 3. A soirious collision occurred yesterday dm ring a dense fog in St. George's ■ dhanno'l, resulting in tho loss of a stoamcu- and serious damage to another. Tho SSHerrmvn liner Arcadian, bound t from lizmdon to Glasgow, en route for Basra and tho Houlder liner . Ayrsniiai, which had loft Manchester on Saturday for Durban and Australian poerfe, collided near Tuskar Rock, about sffii miles off the coast of Wexford, Lieiand. In thaee minutes the- Arcadian had founder od, and of the crew of fiftytwo (nxßrtly Lascars) twelve who went below itt- secure their money perished. The ran minder were picked up by the Ayrshire's boats. The jkyxshire received a crashing blow forn'ard, and commenced to fill at once. Amsistance was quickly at hand, and tho steamer, which was carrying 200 passumgers, was towed to the harbour of CJefuge at Holyhead, a distance of aboufi 100 miks. There she was beached in a safe position, for temporary liopairs. All tine Ayrshire's passengers behaved wietli, and there was no panic ( during title trying time following the collision.. The steamer's No. 1 hold is flooded. Tho Arctadian. was a steel screw vessel of 2855 tons, classed 10QA1 at Lloyds, built in 1891 by Short Bros., of Sunderland, and owned by the Ellerman Lines, Ltd., of Surtdorlan d. The principal dimensions wore— Lent eth, 320 feet; breadth, 42 feet; depth, 17. B feet. The Aj-TBhtre, under tho flag of the Fed-eral-Honlcfler-Shire Line, hae mad© several visits to 'S Fellington. She is owned] by the Elderslie !S.S. Co., Ltd., of Glasgow, and wag built i in 1903 at Newcastle by Hawthorn, LraEe, and Co., Ltd., and classed 10QA1 at Lloyds. She is a steel twin-screw four-masted vessel, of 7749 tons, her principal dimssnsaone being—Length, 460 feet; breadth, s£B feet; depth. 31.8 feet. ANOTHEE STEAMEE FOUNDERS IN VICEE-ENT STORM OQPF OAPEI HATTERAS. TSEELVE LIVES LOST. (Receivbd January 3, 10.55 p.m.) LONDON, January 3. New Y<*rk advices state that a British steanter foundered during a stfcorm off Cape Hatteras, North CWolina. The mate/ and eJeven seamen were drowned, but the remainder of the crew were* rescued. Cape Haitteras ia the outer point of a long sand-?banli which guards the greater part of the coast of tha State of North Carolina. Yiolent storms are frequent off tho capoOTHER MISHAPS YACHT .fIiSHORE AND THE CREW MISSING. HOP/ART, January 3. The sm<aJl yacht Ayesha has beep washed asitoore at Low Head, forty miles noriJh-west of Launoeston. The ya<sht left "Olverstone for a day's fishi'mg. The cr<3W . of. four—Vince (the owner), "Wfelsh, Jack, and Ihglis—all young men, are missing. AiIBOATING FATALITY. BRISBANE, January 3. A .sailrrgi boat, overturned off Peel Island on Friday morning. The crew of four men. clung to the bottom of' the boat, winch drifted for eighteen ISiouts. Three of the men were landed in a vary exbiw»sted state. The fourth, named Pbltterson, was drowned after clinging Ato the boat for fou«*teen hours. UNOH2BKTED ROCK LOCATED. HOBART, January 3. ' An uiicJiiffirted rock has been, discovered wbero the New Zealand Shipping Company's liner Papomui struck a fortnighlt ago. The rock is covered with 10ft of water, an»3 is four and a half miles off ] Waterfhou! le Island, in Bass Straits. It is wonderful that no accident had occarred at the rock before, tes it is in Oho direct route of vessels.