The Archive · 1889

Loss of the Barque

DREWES

The barque F. H. Drewes, while ona voyage to Shanghai from San Francisco, which port abe left in August, was over: taken by a violent typhoon on the 15th December, in which she was dismasted and waterlogged. The crew left her two days later in one of the ship's boats, intending to make for the Mariannas, some 850 miles distant. They succeeded in reaching Yap, but suffered much privation on the way, their supply of water and provisions being short. At Yap one of the men died. The remainder were taken to Manila in one of the Spanish gunboats, and Captain Roth-bart and his wife arrived here on the 8th by the China and Manila steamer Zafiro.—Daily Press,

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