WRECK OF A SCHOONER.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14234, 28 February 1917, Page 4

WRECK OF A SCHOONER.

TOTAL LOSS, ON* ~R#$F , . r APi^;, SASSA^btuarju 10; • The American , „fo*uivmasted schooner E. B. Jackson,' of 682 tons^commaK-ded by Captain,, Ar OlspJor» aßd owned •by Messrs. Hindrolph and C0., "0f Sap Francisco, was totally wrecked-. on. the. outer reef off the village of Ma'taiagatelei . near Apia, on Febr^uaryV*^. , , The} \^ S sel left Melbourne' on Deqenrber 6 -for Samoa, under charter to Burns, "Ph'lp and C 0.., Ltd., to load copra "^;^.pia; for San v Francisco. She arrived - off" Api^, on , February 2, but ,found,Jt. impossible to maikc the harbor, .owing to calni and a strong easterly V.curreiit'rrOn .the mom: ing of February f , - - {is v t"he . niotprschooner Ma^Vua wefiC out to tqw bet m, a very Heavy fjiiii.Bq-jall .suddenly obscured both lauid^and' reef.-, The "captain started to wear ship, .'j the vessel being half ...w^y round T .wheni the winjd suddenly changed twx> -points, and fell very light, the. vessel ,-strjking ....,"|ihcf..repj nearly bow '-pn.' Slie &\yung. broadside. t€ the reefi . and, Jmnie.diately commonoet to fill. A boat' with two men capsized but the men s\vam,,-ashore. One'-'of „th< crew afterwards. swfli.m_.*J§hpi*e with i line. It was by this that -the, .vrew, w«v< rescued/As the ;C^6w :^"'ere' huable t< save any. of their .clothes tliey were eacl supplied with A .€U^*ea&-y,sty-Ft';/'ja ,pai: of trousers, a: pair of ; ;b6ot^; . s ocks', ah'd.'J belt from, the miHtac^-sbofes..; . The vessel is . tilted over on v her stair board bilgce, the .mizzen mast han'gino and"* the jigger mdSt^-gbne alto'gelh^ The wrecjk,i\va^fSold by public 'anctibi to Mr. Boejtku-^av.-the sum of £145.— Auckland Herald correspondent.