A WRECKED STEAMER.
4 HER CREW LANDED. A cable message on Page 2, sent from Sydney this morning, stated thei-e was some anxiety about the steamer Port Stephen, a week overdue at Newcastle from Oamaru. A telegram from Dunedin this afternoon gives the information that the barque Ravensoourt, from Newcastle to South America, had called at the heads and landed the crew of the wrecked steamer Port Stephens.
[Per Press Association-.] PORT CHALMERS, October 15. The Ravenscourt barque, from Newcastle has arrived at th-e heads with the shipwrecked crew of the steamer Port Stephens, which left Dunedin on i September 27 and lost her propeller and was driven to latitude 40 south, where she was abandoned. DUNEDIN, October 15. The steamer Port Stephens was chartered to the Union Company. She was commanded by Captain Jolly, and was |of 2275 tons register. She left Dunedin for Newcastle via Oamaru on September 27. ! The cargo steamer Port Stephens, from Newcastle, via Wellington, last arrived at Lyttelton on August 20. She brought about 2800 tons of ooal and 10,300 ft of timber— railway sleepers and telegraph poles— for Lyttelton. _ The Port Stephens was a cargo carrier oi a very good stamp. She was a steel screw steamer of 3554 tons greet* and 2278 tons net register, and was 345 ft in length, 44.1 ft in beam and 18.2 ft in depth of hold. She had triple-expan-sion engines of 287 nominal horsepower. The vessel was twelve years old, having been launched in 1894, by Messrs J. L. Thompson and Sons, at Sunderlaiid. She was owned, by the Anglo-Australasian Steam Navigation Company, of London (Messrs W. Milburn and' Co., managers), and was commanded by Captain Jolly, who had Mt M. Milne as chief officer, Mr A. E. Strickland as second, and Mr J. Ward as third. Mr W. Warren was chief engineer. After discharging at Lyttelton the Port Stephens sailed for Timaru, to put out the remainder of her cargo. She was then to proceed to Newcastle.
A WRECKED STEAMER.
Star (Christchurch), Issue 8752, 15 October 1906, Page 3
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