THE WRECKED PURITAN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 2, 18 August 1911, Page 6

THE WRECKED PURITAN.

CASTAWAYS IN WELLINGTON. (Per Press Association.) Wellington, August 17. Th ree sailors belonging to a missing boat of the American barque Puriitari, which sprang a leak on -Tune 20th last during a heavy gale when about 800 miles from Tahiti, landed in Wellington to-day- .by. tiro...Maltai from Papeete. . -They wore Alfred Murphy (Adelaide), Fred. Wragg (Nottingham), and Thomas St. Clair (Waterford,- Ireland). When the Puritan was abandoned Captain Chapman, in charge of one boat with Collins (second mats) and ton men, made for Tahiti, which they reached on July 14th. The second boat, also with ten men, in charge of the first mate . (Hatfield), parted company soon after the two boats left the derelict vessel, and as nothing had been heard of them since Collins, the second mate, reached Auckland on July 29th, it was feared they had been lost at sea. Fortunately that was not so. After thirteen days in an open boat, the crew suffering somewhat through shortage of water, they reached the island of Anna, and proceeded by a trading vessel from there to Tahiti. Three came on to New Zealand by the Maitai, and the rest went to San Francisco.