A WATERLOGGED VESSEL

Patea Mail, Volume XII, Issue 15, 21 May 1886, Page 3

A WATERLOGGED VESSEL

•,:I I (FEB'PiIKSS ASSOCIATION.) ...... PLYMOUTH* May 21. . schooner isrOUtsida flying a signal of dißtftMh tug. lias gom out: .relief. . ,j - "the vessel Signalled' as in distress is the Slat of ; the Heisey*. and is 1 waterlogged. The 'crew* have been taken off her aiid ; landed atithe breakwater.' The vessel is anchored'outside, ahd will be tugged into port;wh en . t<M)!® ejt lsubsides. ; ■. The St.ar.of the Mersey, 253 tons, Capt. Christian, from Kaipara to Dunedin,, sprung a leak yesterday afternoon in her how, and being udotble to keep (ho water doWh ivitli pumps decided to make for this harbdiir for shelter/. Shd has eight men on board and although pumping all night the >wate!r so increased that rtho. beqame un.Captain thep, hoisted a flag of distress which was ;sson .from ? the shore and 'tbo Harbourmaster. in ' (he tug boat Wflpt' o(|i to 1 her : aid. • The Capt am andradrt bw thoroughly* 'exhahatied' a'fld eay but fdf harbour they would all have been lost. ..'Two anchoii were letrgoibut tho vessel is drifting lOjwardßj||^ishßro. u , Tho. :i CaptMu ap<},,cre# were biought on shore and abandoned the vessel. Sh« has a cargo of timbef/for r tta JJunedin Company:' 1 The Catkin is iusoJ burJ/nN. The Star if (httiMbrgaSr isAospfld in the IBquita ble)l(lßurance Association of >New Zealand for £4600. Shot left Kaiphrh I dh| k Wednesday, with illjOOO feet of baulk itim4 ber> and 5,000 feetr ordiparyiio tWlien the vetoed w*as abandoned she was full firith water.upto the hatches, the tugiWas not powerful enough to; low iher into Harbour «o the Wreck has accordingly drifted aahore opposite the town.