Terrible Shipwreck.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1839, 2 June 1886, Page 2

Terrible Shipwreck.

GREAT LOSS OF LIFE. Stdkit, May 31. News has come to hand tbii morning of a serious marine disaster which occurred on the New South Wales coast last night. The steamer Ly-ee-Moou, 1200 tons, belonging to the Australian Steam Navigation Company, which left Melbourne for Sydney on Saturday evening, had proceeded as far as Green Cape, a little to the northward of Gape Howe, when she struck on an outlying point and became a wreck. Within ten minutes of the ship’s striking she parted amidships, the afterpart remaining stationary on the reef, while the forepart drifted shore wards, the seas making a complete breach over both portions of the vessel. All those who were saved were in the forepart of the ship, and they were landed with the aid of a rope worked by the lighthouse keeper and his assistants. The five saloon passengers saved, as well as the members of the crew rescued, were in the forepart of the vessel, the only loss of life from that position being one lady, who perished while attempting to reach the shore, and a youth who died from exposure. The captain was the last to leave the wreck, ill the remaining saloon passengers perished, it being impossible to render them any assistance, and at daybreak, the whole of the afterpart of the ship had disappeared. It is estimated that between 70 and 80 lives were lost.