A SHIP BURNT AT SEA.
The Grata, ship, from Newcastle, lately reported sighting the hull of a ship 1200miIes from Houolulu.thoves sel evidently having been destroyed by fire. The Sydney-owned barque Sharpshooter, just, arrived frcm Honolulu, reports sighting a similar derelict. Captain Watts, of tho Sharpshooter, states that on tho I] th Jnno, in 630 N., 147-36 W., he observed a wreck completely burned out. Every part of her woodwork was gone but her boom and bowsprit, which were in ono piece and still attached to the hull. The bridge and deckhouse, being of iron, were sfauding, and tho iron decks were intact. Her hull was still unimpared, and drifting about. It was that of an iron ship of 2700 or 2800 tons register. Smoke was coming from the after-hatch. Tho Sharpshooter sailed all round tho wreck at a cable's length, and Captain Watt took mimite observations of it. He found the last letters of her name still on tho hull. They were "osfold." Hp took the hull to bo that of a new ship, and the hull was not a bit warped or twisted. Tho wreck is a danger to navigation as it drifts about. A. ship named the Houresfeld was destroyed by fire in i)ecem|J ber last, and it is probably tho same vessel.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11848, 22 July 1893, Page 1
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216A SHIP BURNT AT SEA. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11848, 22 July 1893, Page 1
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