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Return of Wrecks and Casualties to Shipping reported to the Marine Department from the 1st April, 1917, to the 31st March, 1918.

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Date of ! Vessel's Name, Age, Casualty, i and Class. Bi! J S Number of Nature of Number of LiveB lost. Place where Casualty occurred. " Wind. •__? I Date of '. vessel's jsame, Age, ,, i<r 2= ' Casualty.! and Class. »' g>a j p ttsB( n n L sL° 9 „!f n Cargo. Casualty. 1 of jiveB lost. Place where _ Casualty occurred. -. 1 Finding of Court of Inquiry. Name of Master D H.£t c - ; Force. Name of Master ' : — »o I Passen»f3H * gers. Cargo. Casualty. «B I * gers. ar 8"' _*»i_ii,y. i 1U8U. A I i_ tion. 1917. Mar. 3 Mountaineer, p.s., Ferry-boat 66 8 .. .. Fire; damage, £300 38 years „ 12 Talune, s.s., 27 Schooner 1,370 ' 56 15 General Stranded; damyears age, £400 April 6 Flora, s.s., 35 years Schooner 818 40 .. Fruit .. Struck wharf; trifling damage „ 16 Eagle, p.s., 31 Ferry-boat 138 ! 4 30 .. Struck wharf; triyears fling damage „ 18 Wootton, s.s., 17 Schooner 90 11 .. Motor- Collision; damage, 1 years cars , £100 I „ 18 Queen of the South,' Schooner 121 12 .. General j Collision; no dam- f s.s., 40 years age ! J May 6 Progress, s.s., 34 Dredge 112 .. .. .. Foundered; damyears age, £1,000 ,, 16 ! Tuirangi, s.s., 8 Cutter .. 72 8 25 .. j Struck wharf; no years damage ,, 27 Waikonini, scow, Schooner 23 5 .. Shingle Stranded; trifling 16 years damage June — Wairuna, s.s., 14 Schooner 2,530 43 .. General Sunk; total loss years ,, .2 J. D. 0., s.s., 24 Dredge 87 5 '.. .. Damaged plate; years trifling 6 Kotare, s.s., 13 Ketch.. 79 10 .. .. Stranded years ,, 11 Eunice, o.e.v., 15 Schooner 129 9 .. Chaff .. Damaged gear; years £150 „ 12 Laura, 28 years .. Barquen- 326 .. .. Granite- Loss of life tine blocks and oats „ 14 Kowhai, s.s., 7 Schooner 483 19 .. Coal .. Struck wharf; years slight damage I 1 Wharf, Queenstown .. Egeria Channel, Nukualofa King's Wharf, Auckland ' Ferry Wharf, Auckland Wharf, Welhngton .. Carey's Bay, Port Chalmers Tokatoka Wharf, X. Wairoa Waiara, Hauraki Gulf In vicinity of Kermadecs Port Ahnriri Waikawa Off Cape Egmont 16 days out from Melbourne to Auckland Gladstone Pier, Lyttelton Whilst lying at the wharf the vessel was found J. Kennedy, to be on fire. No damage to hull or engines S.E. Fr. breeze When entering Egeria Channel vessel struck J. Morrison, an uncharted pinnacle rock, and damaged her plates and frame Calm .. When berthing bumped against one of the L. C. Adkins. piles and damaged a plate N. Light .. i Bumped into the wharf when berthing .. T. A. Lynch. (| The " Queen of the South " was backing out ~) j t sen from the wharf when a squall struck her S. Moderate- and caused her to bump into the " Wootton," J-™ , r 5 r j trc j en damaging the latter's stanchions, bulwarks, ' and decking N.E. Gale .. Vessel was moored undergoing repairs, and was partially dismantled. No one was on board, and during the gale she filled and sank S.W. Strong .. Vessel ran into the wharf on a dark night .. Thomas Ross. W. Gale .. The vessel's anchor-chain parted, and she was J. J. Doyle, driven on to the beach Sunk by enemy raider .. .. .. H. C. Saunders. Vessel was found to be sinking, and when F. W. Green, pumped out a hole was found on the port bow, which is supposed to have been made when letting go or heaving up the anchor S.E. Light .. Vessel was moored at wharf, and on the tide D. Hanning. falling she settled amidships on some obstruction, which caused fracture of the keelson S.E. Gale .. Heavy seas damaged the bulwarks, stanchions, R. Sproule. and davits, and carried away a lifeboat S.E. Gale .. A heavy sea came on board and washed C- John Johnson. Gibson, an O.S., overboard. Everything possible was done to save him, but no boat could have lived in the sea that was running Calm .. When berthing, the order " full astern " was E. C. Vellenogiven, but the engines failed to act, and the weth. vessel struck one of the piles with the crown of the anchor, and damaged the hawse-pipe and one of the plates