MISHAPS AT SEA

Otago Witness, Issue 3525, 4 October 1921, Page 21

MISHAPS AT SEA

A SCHOONER WRECKED. SUVA, September 26. Captain Neil Murchiio'.t, master of the schooner Columbia River, entered Suva j Harbour at 3.€ Q yesterday afternoon in ; the ship’s boat. He reported that the schooner was wrecked on Sunday Island, j in the Kermadecs. at 4 o'clock on the i morning of September 8 while bound from j Auckland to Portland, Oregon. The ship | ran ri.ht ashore, and is a total wreck in a safe position. The crew of 13 all got ashore. The captain landed stores and theft ' decided to come to Suva for help. He started on September 11 .a voyage of 750 miles in the ship's boat, with six of the crew. The balance are well provided for. They are living on the ship. All are well The island is full of goats. M.M.S. Veronica, which is now in Suva, or iI.M.S. Pioneer mar go to-day to rescue the balance of the crew. H.M.C. Chatham will sail at 5 o’clock this afternoon for Sunday Island to pick up the balan e of the Columbia "River’s crew. She will then sail for Auckland.— A. and N.Z. Cable. 11.M.5. Chatham will rail for the Kermadecs at 9 o’clock to-night- She is due in Auckland about Monday. [The Columbia. River was a five-mo r. ted schooner of 1061 tons gross register. She visited Port Chalmers in April last, arriving here cn April 11 f-cm Newcastle with a full cargo of coal. Slie sailed on May 10 for Newcastle, where she loaded another cargo of coal, and sailed on July 30 for Auckland. The vessel reach'd die northern port on August 8, and sailed early in September in ballast for Portland, Oregcn ] CARD INT A BREAKING UP. SUVA, September 26 The Cardinia is breaking up. On Saturday night she was on her beam ends, and her copra cargo was floating out. None was salved. The crew have left the ship. FIRE ON AUGUSTA. CAPETOWN, September 27. The fire on the steamer Port Augusta has been completely extinguished. Her coal and a portion of the cargo are being unloaded. SUBMARINE ACCIDENT. V NEW YORK. September 27. A telegram from San Pedro states that submarine R 6 sank at her moorings. Two of the crew were drowned. The cause oE the accident is unknown. MANTUA SINKS KETCH. LONDON, October 1. The steamer Mantua collided with the Norwegian ketch Star off St. Catherine’s Point. The ketch sank, but her crew was rescued. The Mantua proceeded undamaged.