Wreck of the Schooner Amoy.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 205, 28 May 1887, Page 5 (Supplement)

Wreck of the Schooner Amoy.

Mr Justice Schavff, importer, Sydney, received intelligence by cable of the loss of the Amoy, a German three-masted schooner, whilst on a voyage from the South Sea Islands, to Hamburg with a freight of copra. The vessel, it is believed, drove ashore in the vicinity of Yap, one of the Caroline Group, on December 2 last year. The captain and crew were saved and taken on to Hamburg. The first shipment of copra was taken in at New Britain, and theneo the vessel proceede dto Jaluit Island (Marshall group), and Yap (Caroline group). On completing her loading at the latter place she started for Hamburg, and had only got a few miles away when she went ashore on a reef and became a total wreck. The crew landed with difficulty, and it is presumed were picked up by a passing vessel and taken home.

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