VESSEL STRIKES BOW ON
FORE PART HELD IN ROCKS. STEAMER’S BACK BROKEN. AFTER-PART SWINGING IN THE ! SEA. The “Herald” reporter on the' tug states that when they passed Cape Colville, at 9.30 a.m., mountainous waves and driving, fierce sqnalls were encountered. The tug reached the Wiltshire at noon, and, despite the danger, stood close in. The Wiltshire struck how on, about a length from the cliff along which foaming breakers dash. The forepart of the Wiltshire is evidently stuck hard with a list to starboard, and the vessel’s back is broken clean in two ; the after-part, from just aft of the bridge, is swinging with the wash of the seas and at an angle from the rest. Several men are clustered on the forecastle head and lookout 'bridge, while more are below it.
No signals were made by the wreck. Two lifeboats are visible in the davits on -the starboard side and a third was smashed against the side of the ves 5 sel Iwhen lowered. The stem of the vessel is under water and as there is no possibility of giving assistance and tho forepart of the vessel is evidently secure, the tug proceeded to Tryphena to organise rescue parties.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11225, 2 June 1922, Page 5
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