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New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 44, 28 February 1874, Page 13

The people of Ivingstown -were early one morning thrown into consternation by the sight of a large ship, all on fire, drifting before the wind into the harbour. She proved to bo the Nangpore, from Calcutta to Liverpool, 1521 tons, laden with cotton, jute, saltpetre, and manilla. It appears (hat she took fire three or four d-iys before, and tne captain endeavoured to make for Holyhead. but was obliged to stand for Kingstown. The crew, exhausted tit the pumps, were unable to take in sail. When within the harbour piers her two anchors were let go ; but slie broke from them, and came into coll won with three of the vessels in the harbour, all ot which foundered — cie of them a schooner from Wicklow, is a total wreck. In tho col isiou her captain, Thomas Ellis, was flung overbo.iard and drowned. The t.rew abandoned the burning ship, which continued drifting in the harbour, a source of extreme danger. At nine o'clock the fire brigado went down from Dublin ; but their efforts to extinguish the fl: mes were futile. It was theu resolved to try the extieino expedient of firing into her so as to sink her. The Victoiia, acting guardship, discharge! several shots at tho Nangpore, sinking her in twenty-right feet of water. Her cargo is said to be worth £10,000.