BARQUE HIPPOLAS LOST

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14687, 22 November 1909, Page 5

BARQUE HIPPOLAS LOST

DESERTED BY HER CREW. TICKED UP BY THE TAKAPUXA SINKS WHILE UKDiG TOWED TO PORT. (Per Uxitkd Pkkss Assochhos.) WELLINGTON. November 21. , llii! liinit|imiit, which arrived to-day Irnm Nelson, via Picton, picked up tlio burque Hippolas, in ballast, ami valciloggwl. at. 3 [i.iii. mi Saturday, on the JackS0l r ', s Head side of the French I'ass. Tile Hippolas had 6ft of water in her, and sir." was (lyiiis, signals f or " Immediate ii.wta.nce. ' When noarded by the chief olhcer o! trie Takapuna and a p'artv of her crew she ,vas found lo be deserted. A quantity of used distress signals were lying about, and there wa; every indication tint- she had been left- in a hurrv. he barque's boats and tho belongings 'of ilie cre.v had aone.

.. I lie T.ikapimii used the barque's wi«-t | "«f am her own hawser. As a safe guard S |,e shpped one of tho barque! ! anchors and heaved the other on board, [ and commenced to tow. This she did for nv.e noMrvyhen ""> water in the barnm. gained rapidly on the ship's pilmps . ■I ho Hippolas then save an ugly lurch, ■ which acted iw n warning .to tho skeleton crew on board he, f rom the Takapuna. Ail hands took to the boats, and the alarm was sounded to the Takapuna to cease towing as the barquo was sinking. Captain blcwart stood by at the stern of the iabpmia, and with a liatdiot. sovercd the tow .mes just, as the Hippolas took her hnal plunge. The Hippolas sain? within Ihreo-nuart-rs o an hour's run to Picton in 35 fathom* ot water. i| lD members of the Takapunas trcw who were doing duty on the Hippolas Had just t ime to i cap ovw . into steamer.-, boats alongside before the Hippolas disappeared, bow fi r *t. It-is believed that, the barque's crew havo readied one of the homesteads in the .-ounds, or they may have been picked up by eome steamer.

the Hippo.as was bouml from Timaru 0 Ivaipara in ballast. She was commanded by Captain Noms, formerlv of the barqueutme Jap Captain Norris joined Uie barque recently at Clarence River

THE CREW RESCUED,

CAUSE OF THE MISHAP.

(Teh United p« K s Associatio.v) • WELLINGTON, November 21. .do crew of the Hippola*. was picked „, by the sloamer Elsie, and landed at Picto, . i I;, „ lhey re ' )ort fh;,t tllo nippoi.-u struck Walker rock at 2 o'clock on Satnr 'lay morning, and immediately commenced to make water rapidly. The crew, therelore, lett to seek assistance. Shortly afterwards they saw the Takapima taks the barque in tow.