TERRIBLE SHIPPING CATASTROPHE IN ENGLISH CHANNEL. SHIP KILLOCHAN, FROM LYTTELTON, IN COLLISION.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 340, 6 February 1889, Page 2

TERRIBLE SHIPPING CATASTROPHE IN ENGLISH CHANNEL. SHIP KILLOCHAN, FROM LYTTELTON, IN COLLISION.

TWENTY FOUR LIVES LOST. LONDON, February 4. News has been received of a terrible shipping catastrophe off the English Coast. The steamer Naired, outward bound, collided off Dungeness with the ship Killochan, homeward bound from Lyttelton. The collision occurred at night, and very great damage was done to the vessels, both of which sank. Scenes of a most distiessuns: character occurred, and the loss of life was very great. So far as can be ascertained twenty-four persons have been drowned, and of these seventeen belonged to the Killochan. The Killochan, which was well-known in Colonial ports, was an iron ship of 1294 tons burden, built in 1874 by A. McMillan and Sons, of Dumbarton, owned by J. Kerr and Co., of Gi'penock, and under command of Captain W Manson. She will be remembered as having last July, when on a voyage from London to Auckland, encountered a series of severe gales which crippled her to such an extent that she was compelled to put into Melbourne dismasted, for repairs ; after completing (which took some week?, and cost some £4000) she came on to Auckland with her cargo, and having discharged it proceeded on September 24th to Lyttelton, where she loaded up for London with grain, wool, etc., and sailed from Lyttelton on October 20th. When the Killochan left hero last she took away, as an apprentice, a young Auckland boy named Harold Bel), of Ponsonby, well connected in the city. He went on to Lyttelton, to ship thence Home,