AN OLD TIMER.
A BARQUE WRECKED
IJAUNCHKSTON, February 4
The barquentine Volador, bound from Oakwood to Melbourne, with a cargo of timber, drifted ashore during a gale, and was wrecked in Musselroe Bay.
The crew, with the exception of a seaman named L. Anderson, were saved but they lost everything.
The Volador was an old wooden barquentine of 213 tons gross register, built in 1884, at Troon, by the Trqon Shipbuilding Company. She was owhed by 'Mr. E. Taylor, of Sydney, and commanded by Captain P. J. Tayloi. The Volador was one of the hostknown vessels in the intercolonial timber trade, and had visited Lyttelton on several occasions.
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West Coast Times, 7 February 1916, Page 2
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108AN OLD TIMER. West Coast Times, 7 February 1916, Page 2
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