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, .41 Kahu, 12 years Schooner Firewood Stranded ; trifling damage Chamberhn Island, Hauraki Gulf L\. Strong breeze The master was making for shelter, when the vessel missed stays and her stern struck a rock Topgallantmast carried away in a sudden squall Fire was discovered in No. 3 hold amongst bags of chaff. No damage to ship When entering the Buller Biver two heavy rollers struck the vessel and disabled the steering-gear, and not answering the helm she struck the south mole The vessel was making for Orakei Bay and steering by a light which was supposed to be the wharf light, but proved to be a light on sewerage works, and the night being dark the vessel ran into the wharf Capsized whilst at anchor, there being no one on board at the time The vessel left Lebu, Chili, for Newcastle, N.S.W., and met with very heavy weather, sustaining considerable damage to machinery, steering-gear, boats, and boatdeck Vessel bumped into wharf when berthing owing to strong tidal current, and injured a strengthening stringer and two plates Fore rigging on port side carried away, causing fall of lower and top masts A. Berridge. „ 21 Laura, 32 years B'q'tine 326 11 Coal .. Dismasted ; damage, £100 Fire ; damage to cargo, £250 Stranded; damage, £300 Lat. 36° S., long. 164° 23' E. Cook Strait, 15 miles south of Pencarrow Breakwater, Westport W.N.W. Heavy gale Strong breeze Fresh hreeze G. P. Wood. „ 22 Victoria, s.s., 9 years Takapuna, s.s., 28 years Schooner 1,870 73 General W. G. F. Entwistle. „ 22 Schooner 472 47 36 General w. C. MacLean. „ 24 Altair, scow, 8 years Schooner Cement Collision with wharf; damage, £70 Orakei Bay, Auckland s. Fresh breeze C. L. Olsen. 57 „ 25 June and July Kiatere, 3 years Feliciana, s.s., 2 years Ketch . . Schooner 11 2^5 2 32 Drainpipes Ballast Capsized ; trifling damage Damage to machinery, <fcc. Off Nelson Wharf, Auckland Harbour Sundry places between Chile and New Zealand S.S.E. Various B. Burt. F. B. Clarke. nTuly 1 Kaipara, s.s., 8 years Schooner General Struck wharf • slight damage Bailway Wharf, Auckland Light .. B. de la Cour Cornwall. 5,608 91 S.S.E. 5 Haere, 8 years Schooner 99 4 Ballast Damage to rigging, £60 Collision; no damage Collision; trifling damage Stranded; trifling damage Off Cape Maria van Diemen S.S.E. Moderate G. Sorensen. 8 Beatrice, s.s., 10 years Phantom, s.s., 20 years Waikonini, 10 Ketch .. 7 2 Fish .. ] W. Light I Owing to accident to steering-gear of " Beatrice " she ran into the " Phantom" moored at the wharf W. Bain. 8 Schooner 18 5 Nil Iron Pot, Port Ahuriri D. A. Sharp. 9 Schooner 60 4 Timber Waikokopu Harbour, Hawke's Bay Calm The vessel was moored in Waikokopu Bay, when a heavy swell came in, carried away the mooring lines and caused the anchor to drag, and the vessel went ashore The Court held that the master, not being sure of his position, should have stood out to sea, especially as the casts of the lead indicated that he was out of his course. The master was drowned in the wreck A heavy swell caused the vessel to strike heavily against the wharf, resulting in considerable damage to vessel and wharf The starboard shrouds gave way, and the mainmast went by the board P. A. Poison. years „ 24 Bell Flower, 11 Ketch .. 98! 7 Produce Stranded ; total loss 1 1 Near Horseshoe Bay, Banks Peninsula S. Gale .. John Dowell. years „ 28 Hauroto, s.s., 29 Schooner General Collision with wharf; damage, £400 Dismasted Glasgow Wharf, Napier Light .. S. Vint. , 1,276 65 E. years „ 28 Jane Gifford, 3 Ketch .. 20 3 Ballast 1 7 miles south-west of Cape Colville Bangitoto beacon, Auckland Harbour S.S.E. Strong E. S. Chatfield. „ 31 „ 31 years Oceano, s.s., 11 years Vesper, o.e.v., 9 years Orete, o.e.v., 2 years Kereru, 5 years Schooner Schooner '3,050 20 41 4 General Cattle .. Collision; no damage Collision; trifling damage Loss of propeller Dismasted ; damage, £200 Calm S.E. - I Collision apparently caused by default of the A.B. on the " Vesper " in not keeping a proper lookout F. W. Davies. T. W. Edlington. K. Bruick. Aug. .9 Schooner 92 8 General i I 3 miles north of Kennedy Bay, Auckland \ mile west of N. Point, Niue Light . . Propeller-shaft broke, and the propeller broke off and was lost When beating to get into the anchorage the vessel missed stays, and in wearing round the mainmast carried away ,, 13 Ketch .. j 100 8 27 Ballast S.E. Strong breeze C. J. Harris.