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Return of Wrecks and Casualties to Shipping reported to the Marine Department from the 1st April, 1902, to the 31st March, 1903.

Date of Name of Vessel, Casualty. Age 3 g; > Number of to J8 Nature of Number Wind. Decision of Court of Inquiry, &c. Name of Master. •-fl M EH | Passeng gers. Place where Casualty occurrei Lives lost. Direction. Cargo. Casualty. Force. 1902. March 18 Schooner 3906 Loss of - life only 1 Kumara, s.s. .. General Lat. 47° 6' S., long. 120° 10' E. An A.B., W. C. H. Plunkett, was knocked overboard and lost. While the Court was of opinion that everything was done after the accident to save the man's life, yet it considered the captain, the chief officer, and second officer deserving of censure for neglect of various duties, and ordered them to pay the costs of inquiry, £11 lis. On vessel's arrival at Timaru a flaw extending over one-third round shaft was discovered in No. 3 length of tunnel-shafting. Three new lengths of shafting, including thrust-shaft, were fitted in Lyttelton before vessel proceeded on voyage Caused through crack in feed-pump.. William Scot land. April 8 Shaft flawed.. Timaru R. Carruther. Angola, s.s., 4 years, A 1 Lloyd's Schooner 12800 32 Ballast.. . 18 Napier, s.s., 32 years Heathfield, 8 years Schooner 48 6 General Breakdown of machinery Sprung a leak On voyage Dunedin to Bluff 30 miles off Holyhead, Irish Channel. On voyage from Liverpool to Wellington At wharf inside Mokau Heads Peter Andre v Lyders. James Fraser. . 24 Barque.. 1534 24 General S. Gale .. Vessel encountered heavy gales and high seas after leaving port, causing her to strain, whereby she made water . 27 Mokau, s.s., 6 months Schooner Coal .. Fire on board; partial loss N.E. Strong breeze Court found that fire occurred through wooden partition in boiler-room igniting from stovepipe, and that the master was to blame in not taking warning by a previous partial ignition of the woodwork, and neglecting to have any hose or pump workable from deck and a proper watch kept while furnace and stove fires were burning. He was ordered to pay £10 7s. 8d., costs of the inquiry While vessel was hove-to on starboard tack during heavy weather an A.B., Thomas Beveridge, was washed overboard by heavy sea and lost An O.S., Gordon Trahair, while furling the fore-royal, fell from aloft overboard and was drowned Alfred Jonas. 98 May 28 8 Rio, 21 years .. Kinfauns, 16 years Sohooner Barque.. 289 .. Timber.. General Loss of life only 1 1 1 Lat. 35° 33' S., long. 155° 6' E. On voyage from Clarence River to Auckland Lat. 42° S., long. 2° 10' E. On voyage from Liverpool to Wellington Reef off Cape Campbell Heavy gale H. C. Spruitt. Alexander Martii Creighton. 981 18 Loss of life only 1 W.N.W. Fresh breeze 13 Ururoa, 2 years Sohooner Timber.. Stranded; partial loss S.W. Strong breeze Master was held to be blamable in that he should have given more definite instructions as to the time he should be called, or that he should have instructed the mate to keep the deck till the danger off Cape Campbell was passed. The instructions he gave to the boatswain were too indefinite, leaving too much to the judgment of an uncertificated seaman. He was ordered to pay the cost of the inquiry, £4 4s. Charles Ludvij Olsen. 196 9