An III=fated Voyage.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLII, Issue 3, 20 January 1909, Page 54

An III=fated Voyage.

Second Officer T. Hillier and six apprentices of the sailing barque Simla,arrived at Plymouth recently, and had a series of dramatic adventures to relate. Their ship left Cardiff with coal for Acapulco on December 16, 1907. Four days out from Cardiff an able seaman fell from aloft, and was drowned. Whe” off’ the coast of South America, they encountered a series of hurricanes, and for seven weeks they battled with storms off C-ape Horn. For two months the ship was detained at the Falkland Islands while the damage done by the storms was repaired. During this time, the captain and chief officer became ill, and the men grew so mutinous that, some of them were lodged in gaol. Finally, just as the ship was pearing Acapulco, fire broke out on board, and the ship had to be abandoned in the barhour, where it burnt to the water’s edge.