WRECKAGE AT THE CHATHAMS.
WELLINGTON, October 12. The Marine Department has been advised that a teak board, with the name Imperator Alexander II in gilt letters 6in long, was washed ashore at O'lcana, in the Chathams, on August 20. There were no weeds or barnacles upon it, and ifc did not appear to have been long in the water. It is reported at the Chathams that firing at sea was heard in- July. The Marine Department does not think that the board could possibly have belonged to the Russian battleship Imperator Alexander, sunk by the Japanese in May last. There may, of course have been a Kussian merchantman of the same name, and she may have foundered in the vicinity of the Chathams. [The wreckage probably belongs to the Russian merchantman Imperator Alexander 11, an iron ship of 184-9 tons, built in 1085 by R. Williamson and Son, Workinglon, and owned by the Gabr Granlund Company, of Raumo, Russia.]
SYDNEY, October 12. With reference to the name-board picked up at the Chathams, it may be mentioned that th© Russian barque Imperator Alexander II le.ft Geelong on March 11, and duly arrived at Falmouth. It is supposed ahe lost the name-board during the voyage.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2692, 18 October 1905, Page 69
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