WRECK OF THE SCHOONER TRANSIT AT NAPIER.
(_Br Telegraph. | Napier, July 11. The schooner Transit, 70 tons, Garroway, maator, bound for Lyttelton with a cargo of gnano, put m here last Friday with a broken main boom. She sent tho broken boom and mainsail ashore, and anchored m tho roadstead. A north-east gale sprang up on Monday, increasing yesterday, with a very high sea. Last night the gale moderated, bat the sea still made. The Transit was riding to two anchors, and about 2 a.m. both cables parted, and the vessel went ashore on Petane Beach. As the vessel neared the breakers the crew (3ix hands) took to the rigging, and all j?ot ashore. One man was thrown on the deck when the vessel struck, and was rather badly hurt. Ho wa3 landed safely. The sea is now .'going down, bnt the vessel is a total wreck. Auckland, July 11. The schooner Transit, wrecked at Napier to-day, is owned by Jagger, Hooper, and Eaatown of Auckland. The insurance on the hull (.£SOO m the South British) was only effected yesterday. Tho cargo was insured for between .£4OO and .£SOO m the National Office.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 2746, 12 July 1883, Page 2
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193WRECK OF THE SCHOONER TRANSIT AT NAPIER. Timaru Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 2746, 12 July 1883, Page 2
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