The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-01-21

SHlPWRECKED
IN SOUTH SEAS
The Chronicle of Jan. 4 says:


The remains of four-masted Brit
ish ship, name unknown, lie on the
reefs that surround Mangaia island,
in the Cook group, but the detailed
The schooner o. NJ. Kellogg, arriving
yesterday from Raratonga, brought the
first news of the big ships loss, and,
strangely enough, neither Captain Iver-
son, veteran of the sea, nor his mate
remembered the name of the unfor-
, tunate vessel that was cast on Man
masted British ship had been lost there,
for while the O. NJ. Kellogg lay at
Karat tonga the skipper of a little trad
ing schooner arrived and told them all
about it. He even brought a mass of
ropes from her rigging and other sup
plies that he had purchased from the
master of the lost ship. Some of this
rope was used on the O. NJ. Kellogg
during her passage from Raratonga to
this port.
Mangaia is a precipitous island that
lies in latitude 81 degrees 20 minutes
south and longitude 15S degrees I min
utes west or about $50 miles southeast
of Raratonga and perhaps coo miles
southwest of Tahiti. According to the
skipper of the trading schooner that
put into Raratonga some weeks ago,
the four-masted British ship ran on
the reef of Mangaia in the latter part
of September or the first part of Oc-
tober, and was quickly broken up by
the giant breakers that rim the island.
But all hands from the ship We're saved
by the natives. who put out in canoes.
The Englishmen were taken ashore and
cared for. and they were there enjoying
the delights of South sea life when the
trading schooner sailed for Raratonga
in October.
The rescue of the crew from the ship
was attended with great danger, ac-
cording to the story told Captain liver
son of the O. NJ. Kellogg. Mangaia has
neither port nor landing, but through
out her circumference of seven or eight
miles is bounded by breakers, outside
of which is very deep water. Only the
natives know how to make the land
Occasionally in the past some passing
ship has lain off the westerly side at
anchor, and natives have gone off to
her to trade; but except for these peri
odical visits there has never been any
communication with the outside world.
The natives who number, perhaps, 20G0
souls, are said to be very friendly.
The wrecked ship is said to have
been bound from Australia to some
South American port when she ran on
the Mangaa reef There are several
sailing vessels of large tonnage bound |
out from Australia which may have
met disaster in that part of the Pacific, |
for they are not yet reported to have
reached their destination. And there |
are others large British ships, bound |
to this coast from Europe, which might |
have piled themselves UP on the reefs |
of Mangaia, for it is fairly in the path |
of ships making for the North Pacific
trades.
Neither the Merchants Exchange nor |
NJ A. Newell & Co, the reinsurance |
brokers. have ever received informa- |
ton concerning the wreck reported by |
the 0. NJ. Kellogg, and the loss of the |
big ship is, therefore, learned here for |
the first time. 1t is surmised that the |
shipwrecked crew has reached either |
Auckland or Tahiti before this time
and will be heard from later.