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RETURN of Wrecks and Casualties to Shipping reported to the Marine Department, from the 1st April, 1886, to the 31st March, 1887.

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If Number of Xature of Number Wind. Date of Casualty. Name of Vessel, also Age and Class. nig. Place "where Casualty o'ccurred. Decision of Court of Inquiry, &e. Name of Master. £ = Passeng Sers. Cargo. Casualty. Lives lost. Direction. Force. 1888. Unknown Naupliante, 30 Barque.. ! 365 10 years 365 10 Ballast.. Supposed foun- ! dered; total loss General; Stranded; slight island damage produce Goal .. Stranded ; parj tial loss Svmposed 10; all hands On voyage from Amoy to Manila ! Vessel left Amo}', bound to Manila, on the Simon Saunders. 27th December, 1865, and has not since been hoard of Breeze.. Vessel touched-reef through mate, who was in George Henry charge, allowing her to get too close in Trayte. March 31 Sybil, 6J years Schooner 150 7 150 Aitutald, Cook Group.. N.E. 31 Kawafciri, B.S., 3 I Schooner : 2S6 17 years 286 17 Bar of Bailer River 1 Casualty caused through insufficient water on John Metcalf. bar. Vessel struck on something hard, supposed to be propeller of s.s. " Grafton," lost some time previously Strong After the wind increased to a smart gale from George Urquhart ! gale S.E. at 5 p.m., the master ought to have Thomson. hauled out at least another point, as the current, wind and sea on the weather bow. As he did not alter his course he iccurately. He ought to have taken cross bearings at Cape Campbell to have ;ee how the ship was steered, and the reason given by him for not having done i want of knowledge of his own duties and responsibilities. He ought also to itever to prevent a full-powered steamer being driven by wind and sea bodily and he was ordered to pay the costs of the inquiry. Court recommended that ie end of two years, provided he has been at sea as mate continuously in the April 11 Taiaroa, s.s., 11 Schooner ; 228 29 years 29 14 or j General Stranded; total 15 loss 30 Waipapa Point, East S.E. Coast. Middle Island April 22 J I ! I I land was obscured by mist. He should have placed a leadsman i: ascertained the position of his ve so — namely, that he thought it s have known whether there was i to leeward broadside on to a bea< Governor should grant him a ma interim Rose Casey, s.s., Schooner 99 10 7 years I ! I I must have known that he was neai [n the chains until the weather cle 3ssel; and his admission that he d sufficient to have given the course tc a distress-signal gun and Holmes lig >ch 100 miles from the port he wa: ite's certificate, and that a master's ,r a lee sh eared or 1 aid not at o the offic( [gilts on b< is bound t 3 certificat I I lore, with thick weather, adverse < he had ascertained his position t i any time look at the compass to £ er in charge of the watch —shows < oard. He never did anything whs to. His certificate w 7 as cancelled, ;e should be reissued to him at tl 15 General Loss of life only 1 Off Mahurangi Reef, on E.N.E. voyage from Auckland to Waiwera and Mahurangi Dagmar Rocks, Catlin's N.E. River Tua Motu, Poverty Bay Fresh A passenger named Samuel Keys was pitched William Somerbreeze overboard by a sudden lurch of the vessel in ville. a heavy sea, and was drowned 22 28 Janet Ramsay, Schooner 41 4 15 years Taupo, s.s., 2 Brig'ntine 408 23 years 41 408 4 23 Ballast.. Stranded; partial loss 7 General Stranded; slight damage 7 Light .. Casualty caused through wind suddenly falling Richard Norman Master not guilty of negligence, but he erred Dugald McColl. in thinking vessel was more to eastward than she actually was, and also in taking the light he saw as that of a vessel at anchor Strong A coal-trimmer named R. Dakelow, while William Li Hie breeze engaged over the side of the vessel clearing Cromarty. the ash-spout, fell into the water, and was drowned Case of rockets exploded in saloon whilst being Charles Herbert moved by the cabin-boy Lovett. May 5 Arawata, s.s.,10 Schooner 623 43 yrs., Al Lloyd's 623 43 . 4 Coal .. Loss of life only 1 Off Moko Hinou Islands, W. on voyage from Russell to Auckland 8 19 Norman Mac- Barque.. 834 19 leod, 10 years, 100 Al Lloyd's Gem, 12 years Schooner 29 3 834 29 19 Wool, tal- Fire ; damage, low, and £70 grain Sand and Stranded ; parshingle tial loss Off Lyttelton Heads, near Port Levy Rocks • Rock about three-quar- N. ters of a mile off S.W. end of Motu Ihi, Auckland Harbour Tory Shoal, Kaipara W. Harbour Error in judgment on part of master in not Frank Harnden. keeping further out 20 Defiance, 6 yrs. Brig'ntine 199 r 8 Timber .. Stranded; slight damage t Vessel was run further to leeward in wearing John Mackay. ship than master anticipated 199 - 8