SCOW WRECKED

Southland Times, Issue 20539, 16 July 1928, Page 7

SCOW WRECKED

FLAT ROCK STRUCK. RESCUED AFTER TRYING EXPERIENCE. (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, July 15. The scow Herald, owned by A. W. Bryant, while on a voyage from Whangarei to Coromandel, ran ashore on a flat rock 10 miles outside of Tiri at 3 a.m. yesterday. The crew scrambled on to the rock and remained there in wintry conditions until their signals of distress were sighted by the steamer Tofua a few minutes before two o’clock yesterday afternoon. Those on the Herald were: ' Captain E. Sellars. J. Davis, acting mate. F. Frodig, able seaman. H. Hansen, able seaman. “We left Whangarei at about 1 a.m. on Friday for Coromandel,” said Captain Sellars. “Towards evening we experienced dirty squally weather from the south-west. We were working up along the shore and the wind broke us off our course. I went to put the ship about and she missed the stays. The next I knew was that we had run ashore. “The Herald went on the rock sideways,” said the captain. “As the weather was nasty she bumped and knocked herself about. We could not launch the boat on account of the heavy seas so we scrambled over the jiboom and got ashore on the rock. In less than an hour the scow worked herself off the rock and drifted in the direction of the Great Barrier.” The men had an uncomfortable time on the rock without food or shelter. Three craft passed during the morning, but did not see the castaways’ signals, but in the afternoon the men were seen from the Tofua and rescued. The Tofua then returned toward port and men were transferred to a launch. The Herald is a schooner rigged vessel of 73 tons. She is one of the largest scows trading out of Auckland. As the floating boat is a menace to navigation, the tug Simplon ha£ been sent to look for it.