BARQUE ANTIOPE

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10868, 7 April 1921, Page 2

BARQUE ANTIOPE

THE CREW g rXPBRIENCfi, LONG FIGHT WITH THE FLAMES. Seven members o 1 the otew of the barque AiiTiope. own* i by the Iron and Steel Comp niv of Net* Zealand, Ltu., which, Was tlan-arej to the extent *»f •1640,080 by fits in Delagoft Bay, Portuguese East. A DR-a. o i January lßtn, arrived at April la ml on Monday by the Riverine, frqai Sydney, They hre Messrs Si Atkins, bf Palnjeguton North; Si Lyon; of DeVnnuurt i A, Eyte, of New Plymouth • <3; MeGoon, At Xallyj pf Dunedinj G ; Derrick, ef Suva, and R--NaticarroWi Mr Atkins, who Vrt,; aii apprentice Oti the barque, acting fte S,pofceetnftti Lor ibe party, when been by K "Herald” reporter, said the fire broke put at about half-past three o’elneh in , the . MOrt»nßi when, the Aiiliene was anchored in. Delftgen Bayi fewm three miles front tho Store; for the purpose ef Unloading’ timber, . It started in ike stui-locker, and, despite ail exhaustive inquitey, ite on* gin remained -a mystery, Tyre flames, he said, had been raging for three hours before the Crew received any assistance in fighting the fur®* Alter Working continuously Until ll ft-m,, they Succeeded in getting < it under control, and finally -it Was extinguished. Included, in the cargo were about 6 000 gun cartridges, Which espiedeo, two negroes Who came aboard in a .tug receiving shot wounds in their arsis. The Antiope -Was an iron ship, and the Intense heat caused the stern, to baekie badly, owing to Whieh all-, hops of Salving her wus abandoned, Captain. Broadbent, who was in command, decided to stand by until ft 11 matters -connected with the fire had keen settled, The crew however, eeettfed passages on the Swedish. etea-aWf Yiaitnf, hound far Hobart, and there transhipped in the u lira arm. foe Sydney, where they seen red passages by the Rlverlna, <fn arrival here they were fitet by the Auckland representa.tp.to of tbs IWlf Zealand Bhipwrech Relief Society, and provided With suffieient money to enable then! to get to their respective, hemes, The Anttope, which Wftft abandoned to the, underwriters, Wag of 1486 tons gross register; and was built by J. Rear and Co. at pert Glasgow Tn' ISESi and had traded in almost every part -of the World under various owners, She made several voyages between Australia and New Zealand ’under. the New Zealand Iron and Steel Uompahy’s fiag, and after undergoing extensive rebates at Port Chalmers as a result of being damaged when entering Bluff Harbour daring a heavy gale, ft Uttle inoru than a year ago, sailed from Wellington tor the South Sea Islands, -Where she bonded ft cargo of copra for the United Kingdom. She wag detained At Rotterdam owing to a. strike of waterside Workers, but eventually salted , for a Raltie port, where she loaded timber - for South Africa.