The Archive · 1872

LOSS OF THE " LAHLOO." (Daily Press.)

We understand that a telegram ceived here aday or two ago announcing the loss of the well known tea-clipper Lahloo, Lound from Shanghai to London, with close 0n1,000,0001bs. of Tea, The Singapore Times of Gth instant contains the following par-tical are, translated fom the Juve Bode of the 26th August, which paper published them in the form of a letter from Soomba, singularly stated to bear the date 28th August On the 2nd August, on my return from a journey, I found 88 shipwrecked persons, all Europeans, at Nangamessie, and learned then that the clipper ship Lahloo, Captain Smith, bound from China to London, had, on the night of the Slst July, when it was particularly dark, and when'she was going round the South Suemba, struck upon the islet of Noesn Manoe, lying by the east coast of Soemba. The ship, after becoming inst, began to heel over towards the North; she had to be abandoned owing to the heavy wind and the seas which broke over her. The crew came ashore at Waning Apoe, where they were forthwith supplied with food through the helpfulness of the Arab Sharif Abdul Rachman, The cargo consisted of 265 tous of tea, wa: and porcelain from Japan, of 220 tons of broken bronze from Japanese cannons, and of 1,080 tons of tea from China, 'The ship was' four years and a half old, and was built in Scotland. The captain has returned on board by boat along with 20 men, to see what can be saved of ship and cargo. Eight sailors have remained with

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