SHIPPING CASUALTIES

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13596, 16 May 1908, Page 5

SHIPPING CASUALTIES

LOSS OF A FRENCH BARQUE

THE CREW PICKED UP,

Per Press Association. CHRIsi'GBtjRCH,' May 15.

H.M.S. Pegasus;' returned" to,' Lyttelton, to-night bringing with' ner! the crew ,(22 in - allj of the 4-masted French Barque Resident Felix Fatjie, ~ whibh was" wrecked ,pn the Antipodes Islands "oh March''loth.'' THe Pegasus had left WeUingixnvon May 6 on a, visit to Chatham, Bounty and Antipodes Islands. She arrived =at the last-named on May 13th at mid-day and the smoke of a fire was then seep, followed by Ahe waving of by' men "on the beach 1 . She anchored on the northern,, si He of "th« island and a boat went off and 1- discovered the-shipwrecked -crew- ... •'The - French'barque had.left -New Caledonia on .°' nickel ore for Hafye sherah ashore on : the south/side',of the jsland pn March ,13th.' The crew ' ianded" ,in ohe. of the boats'arid founti;tlie^proyis^ndepot. The ship did noli up;]tin AprE 18th. and -until 'then- the ineii. on th£ stores brought from" tlie i siiip,. after r tliaJt, however, they'fell over 'on depot provisions which had to be supplemented by albatrosses and seals. The men were in good health,;when rescued. .