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Otago Witness, Issue 3595, 6 February 1923, Page 58

KETCH EDNA ASHORE. AUCKLAND, February 2. The Collector oi Customs is advised by wireless from Awanui that the ketch Edna is a total loss north of Parenga Heads. The crew are safe, and are proceeding to Auckland to-dav. The Edna was owned by the Nobel Explosive Company, and was carrying explosives to Greymouth. The hull and cargo were insured in England for £5030. February 4. Details of the loss cf the Edna show that a storm, with heavy rain squalls, raised a considerable sea. The weather was thick and dirty, and no land could be seen, when shortly before 11 a.m. breakers were sighted a short distance to leeward. The vessel was then under reduced sail, and more was set to try to beat to sea, but the vessel drifted on to a sandspit. Captain Burke and his two men, after landing, remained near at hand in the hope of salvage, spending the night in the scrub, but the storm prevented any action. During the night the j-jdna slipped off the sandspit on the ebbing tide, sinking in six fathoms of water. At low tide the mast is visible, the rest of the vessel being completely submerged. She ~is considered to be a total loss. It is doubtful if the cargo of gelignite can be recovered.