Sad Catastrophe at Sea.
SIX MEN WASHED OVERBOARD. Captain Kerr, of the barque Ear! Derby, which arrived in Wellington harbour from London yesterday morning reports a terrible calamity which happened during the voyage £t y a.m. on the 20th of June, ten days after iouadiug the Cape. The vessel was in lat. 12 S , long. 01 E., and was battling with a heavy W.S.W. gale, when six of the crew were ordered to haul on the main braces. While they were thus engaged a heavy sea broke on board, filling her decks fore and aft. When the water had cleared off, the men had disappeared, and it was only too evident that they had been washed overboard in a I ody. The weather was so bad that there ''•as no possibility of bringing the ship to, or 1 vwering boats. It may be added that no one ou board saw the men carried away, and no one saw them afterwards.—Post.
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1711, 24 July 1885, Page 3
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