Hongkong papers received on Ssturdiy brought the details of the loss of Messrs, Jardine, Matheson &Cv.'s steamer Vanzing, Captain' J. Hogg. She waa the second Nanzing and the first Sin Nanzing, and was originally a paddle steamer, having the distinction of being the first merchant. steamer that came through the Suea Canal paying her dues. The first Nanzing was two-funnel paddle buat and one of the prettiest steamers that ever came to China, She was subsequently sold to the China Merchants' Cv., and was known as the Talyew and then as the Hingshing, being ultimately sunk in the Yellow Sea after collision with the schooner Catherine Marden. steamer just lost was sold to the Japanese, then bought back and converted into screw steamer and re-named the Nanzing, the present Sin Nanzing having replaced her. After running on the North-China coast for some time, she was sent down to Hongkong and put on the line between Hongkong and Manila, The follo particulars are from the Daily Press:
'The British steamer Nanzing, bound from Manila to Hongkong, went ashore yeater-day morning, during' a dense fog, on the S.A. point of Loma, about twenty miles from here, News of the casualty was brought to Hongkong by the second officer, who arrived here last evening, having come from the scene of the disaster in a fishing junk, 'The passengers were landed on the island, 'They consist of nine Europeans, amongst whom were several ladies, and a number of Chinese. The Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company's tug, the Pilot Fish, left here last evening to' go to the assistance of the steamer and bring up the From latest information there appears to be very little doubt but that the Nanzing, which went ashore on Loma, will bea total wreck. The Nanzing is an old ateamer and she is s0 badly ashore that, there is not the slightest likeliluod of getting her off, The Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company's tug Pilot Fish, which brought up the passengers, and made another trip with a view of sulving earg:, arrived hero yesterday forenoon. The sugar which was stored in the forehold is of course a total Joss, The hemp, of which there were some 3,000 bales on board, there is every probability of saving. he Pilot Fish and the attendant junks brought up 1,200 bales yesterday und the tug was to leave yesterday afveravon to salve the rest.
On board the steamer besides a number of Chinese passengers were eight European engers, and although the wreck. was ly ® dramatic one, there on. board during the time of uncertainty went through a rather anxious experience. From what we cait learn from the passengers, the vessel struck shortly after 4am, Naturally the passengers were sleeping quietly in their berths, and the first notice they had of the accident was when they felt the ship grating on the rocks. In deep darkness, made more doubly dark in consequence of a dense fog, something like a panic, arose. Captain Hogg, however, seems to have grasped the situation ina moment. He immediately sent one.cf his officers uft to the passengers to explain what had happened and to assure them that there was no danger. Orders were then given to lower the boats and take the passengers of—off being a barren and precipitous rock some tive hundred yards ahead, Buats. were immediately lowered and the passengers, Europeasi and Chinese, got into them. One of the boats containing Chinese passen-gore, for some reason or other, probably through being overloaded, capsized almost immediately, The passengers. with. the exception of one were, however, saved. After cruising about for nearly half an hour, a landing place was found on the rocks and Chinese and Eurupeans all got safe to land before six o'clock,. The second
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