Hongkong, 17th April, 1877. Before C, May, Firat Police Magistrate, LIG. Tuossers, R.N., Harbour.
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Government Ma rine Surveyor."
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coat of lit Cnr, #60 and to oar te R. (Pox Pouce) anid Inca; Defendant, a quartermaster of capable, in the Ts i, at Dey on 23rd inst. 1 Ordered to pay costs of the a Re the loss of the " Naworth Castle."
The following is the finding of the Court:—
Castle, official Number 58,116, 354 tons, of We find that the Brith bargue Nawordh Sonderlan, left Swatow in Chine oh to 18th ruary last, with a cargo of augur, bound to Falmouth, Eoglanil,"for orders; and: that the vessel was totally Yost on the Bombay Shoal, Paracells Group, China Sea, at about 0.15 am., of the 15th February:' The log books, charts, and all other papers "connected with the navigation of the abip having hi oat, the Court is unable to form an' obit as to the cause of this édsualty, bey in two and a half days the'ship was vet 100 miles-to the westward of what was posed to be her position.
'We find that the master, Henry Phillip 'Weppner, was washed overboard and drowned soon"after the vessel attack,' and that a seamatr'natitd William Scott was also drowned in epdpatéuring to swim to © boat from the remainder of the crew were taken on board a Chinese junk from the boat into which they. had got, and were ultimately Ianded at or near Leong Soy on the 8.5. side of the Island of Hainan, when they were transferred to the recently opened Port of Hoi-how and from thence sent to Hongkong by the British Covsul.
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