A CORRECTION.
■ TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—ln your excellent Christmas Number of the Witness, among the wrecks mentioned in that most exhaustive article on maritime matters connected with New Zealand, you speak of the sad disaster, bf the collision in tlie. English Channel in June, 1883, between the Waitara and the Hurunui, and refer to them as screw steamers. Now, Sir, tEe Waitara was a barque of iron, of 883* tons gross, and was built in Glasgow in 1863. She had two.strong 'bulkheads, and was originally called the Hindustan. The writer sailed' for London in her from the Bluff in May 1877, being then commanded by Captain Caborne,; of the Royal Naval Reserve. The Hurunui was a full-rigged ship, as far as I can recall from memory, being built at New-castle-on-Tyno in 1375 by the Palmers. Her gros3 tonnage was 1054-. In this collision all the steerage passengers (who had retired to rest) were lost (there were eight of them), and four out of the eight cabin passengers were rescued. Captain Webster (whom the writer sailed .with on.. the Orari, when he was second officer) saved himself, along with Lieutenant H. S. Middleton, his chief officer, by getting lup the mizzen-risrging of the Waitara and clambering along the bowsprit of the Huruntii on to her deck.—l am, &c, ' : • C. F. Glegg. Dunedih, December 8.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 11603, 11 December 1899, Page 6
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223A CORRECTION. Otago Daily Times, Issue 11603, 11 December 1899, Page 6
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