MARITIME MISHAPS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7451, 27 May 1911, Page 5

MARITIME MISHAPS

SIXTY LIVES LOST IX PANAMA WRECK., By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. PANAMA, May 25. Tho National Company’s steamship Taboga, 619 tons, was sunk on Tuesday off Punta Mala. There were one hundred passengers. Sixty were drowned. LINER ASHORE ON CAPE COAST. LONDON, May 25. The Gennan-Australian liner Itzohoe, 4187 tons, is ashore at Retief, Capo Colony. Assistance has been sent. (Received May 27, 0.10 a.m.) CAPETOWN, May 26. The Itzehoe is hard and fast. tho forepart resting on the rocks. The vessel’s bottom is badly damaged and the forepeak and lower Nos. 1 and 2 holds are full of water. Tho salvage of the cargo depends on the weather. TRIALS OF A SHIPWRECKED CREW. PERTH, May 25. Tho Norwegian barque Mandalay, bound, from South Africa to Albany, was wrecked at Capo Chatham, near Brookes Inlet, tea days ago. She was blown ashore in a storm. The crew, numbering fourteen, walked fifty miles to the township of Denmark, on the' Denmark river, about thirty-eight miles from Albany. They had plenty of provisions, which were landed from the wreck. _ THE BEACHED IVERNIA. LONDON, May 25. Tho bulkheads of the Canard liner Ivornia, which struck Daunt’s Rock', south-east of Kinsale, during a fog, and was beached in Queenstown Harbour, burst, and the engine-room became flooded. The crew remain on hoard tho vessel.