SHIPPING IN TROUBLE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 12956, 15 January 1913, Page 3

SHIPPING IN TROUBLE.

A DISABLED VESSEL

(Press Aesn. — By Telegraph. — Copyright.) (Received January 15, 9.30 a.m.) ■LONDON, January 14. The Snowdon Range has been towed to Queenstown, fifty days from Philadelphia. She lost her rudder and all her boats a month ago during a gale. WREOK~OF~A~STEAMER. GREW OP 17 DROWNED. » (Received Jan. 15, 1.35 p.m.) LONDON, January 14. The steamer Hawkwood has been wrecked afc Plamborough Head. The entire crew of seventeen were drowned. PASSENGERS ON LONELY ISLAND. TWO DAYS WITHOUT FOOD. LONDON, January 1. The Messageries Maritimes steamer Salazie left Diego Saurez Madagascar, on Thursday morning, bound for Marseilles. She had a number of passengers on board, and when she weighed anchor the weather was bright and the sea beautifully calm. But tlue barometer suddenly fell, and with very little warning a terrific cyclone swept down on the vessel. For 14 hours she was engulfed by great seas, six of her eight boats being swept from, the decks and davits. The English passengers, gathered .in the saloon, and sang "Nearer My God to Thee." Next morning the ship was in such a bad way that her complement decided to leave her. They managed to get ashore on a lonely island in tlie Indian Ocean, and were for two days without food. Then flares lit by the passengers were seen by a passing tramp .steamer, and a rescue effected. [The F. M.S. Salazie used to trade to Sydney many years ago, and later on made occasional trips to this part of the world. For some time s^ie has been, doing varied duty for. the company, and her trips have included the MadagascarMarseilles run. There are scores of small islands north of Madagascar, which is a French possession off the east coast of Africa, and, presumably, it was one of these upon wliich the passengers and crew landed.] LONDON, January 8. The sensational sinking of a steamer, from which the passengers and crew had been rescued just in time, js reported from the Algerian seap'ort of Uona. The vessel was the French' steamer Saint Augustin, which, at the time of the disaster was bound from Marseilles to Algeria. According to a statement lodged by the passengers with the Commercial Tribunal in Bona the Saint Augustin left Marseilles on December 31. On the following day tho engineer reported that the ship had sprung a leak. Although the pumps were set going, and kept hard at it, the water gradually gained, and by 10 o'clock at night the fires were extinguished. The captain had lifebelts served out to the passengers, and ordered the lifeboats to be got ready. This work, however, occupied four hours, owing to the repairs which were' found to be necessary to most of the boats before they could ' be lowered. At 10.30 next morning the steamer Tyra hove in sight, and the passengers, having lieen transhipped, the sinking steamer was taken in tow. The Tyra had not gone very far when the Saint Augustin suddenly went down like n, stone. The captain says that the leak was caused by the Vessel's striking some submerged wreckage,., [Thlo Saint Augustin was an iron screw steamer of 1816 tons. She wafl built in 1880 by John Elder and Co., of Glasgow, and was owned by the Ci«s General Trans- Atlantique. Her length was 314ft., breadth 33ft. Bin., depth 16ft, sin.]