DOUBLE SHIPPING DISASTER.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8792, 22 April 1907, Page 2

DOUBLE SHIPPING DISASTER.

Extraordinary Situation

Press Association —Copyright. Adelaide, April 22.

A serious double shipping disaster occurred yesterday morning. Tire ship Arden Craig, inward bound from London, collided and sank the barque Norma, lying at anchorage ready for sea. The crew of the Norma wore below but with the exception of the carpenter, whose absence was not noted, escaped in the lifeboat. A boat from the Arden Craig went in search of the missing man, but could not find him and could not reach the Arden Craig again and drifted to the outer liarhour works whore it was picked up by a steam launch. ‘Later on the Jessie Darling, inward bound, approached and noticing a spar standing out of the water bore down under the impression that someone was clinging to it. Those on the Arden Craig warned the steamer to stand off, but _ owing to misuudortsaudiug the Jessie Darling steamed over to the wreck and one of the spars pierced her and in five minutes she sank, resting on the submerged vessel. The master and crow hud barely time to get into a boat launched from the deck before the steamer foundered. The double disaster is unique in Australia.