On Saturday morning at 10 o'clock formation was received in Shanghai that the British steamer Holme Eden, owned by Mesere, Angier Bros., of London, had Leen wrecked on her way up to Shanghai, She left Hongkong on the 19th instant, and on al ide on the S.E, side of one Thursday morning at half-past three o'clock
of the Leuconna rocks. There was a thick fog at the time and the engines were in consequence going at a reduced speed, but the concussion was nevertheless so severe that the bottom of the vessel was ripped up
after she struck, the water rushed in and put by the sharp rocks, Tales than two minutes the fires out, and in less than halfanhour, the engine room und the after part of the vessel were full of water. The vessel had struck on a narrow ledge of rock, on which she rested, the port side of the vessel touching the rock above water, while on the starboard lo the water was ton fathoms deep amidships, and the vessel was submerged from the chart room to aft. As avon as the accident happened, Captain Prentice gave orders to lower the two life boats, but to get the starboard boat into the water it had to be shifted across the deck and launched on the port side, This operation and victualling the boats took about half an hour and then the crow of 26 all told left the vessel, without having had time to save anything. Indeed some of the men were nut fully dressed and afterwards suffered good deal from cold and exposure in the ta, as there was a fresh breeze blowing and the men were continually drenched by the water dashing into the boat, which necessitated constant baling. Two Arab firemen who were shipped at Aden suffered more than the rest from the ould weather to which they were unaccustomed. In one boat were the captain and thirteen men, and the mate and remainder of the crew in the other, After the bouts left the vessel they stood by her some time, in the hope that she would remain firm on the rock so that they could go on bourd again, but there war a heavy well on, and the vessel gradually listed over to port, #0 that in about an hour from the time they had left her, she had heeled over something like 45 degrees to port. Under these circumstances, andseving that the cargo was beginning to wash out,
Gutzlaff, The boats kept together till the captain gave orders to mine sail about 11 p.m. on Thursday, when they Jost aight of each other.
The mate's boat was picked up by the Blue Fennel steamer Myrmidon at midday on Friday, after the men had been 33 hours in the boat, and they were brought to Shanghai on Saturday afternoon. The captain was not so fortunate, anc was not till he had been fifty hours in his buat that he was picked up by the Chinese gunboat Chaowo. This gunboat had on board a and as the weather had been captain had run for shelter on Fridey night and anchored, but soon after she got under way. Captain Prentice's boat was sighted at 7 a.m. on Saturday about 3 miles from Bovham, the boat having gone 47 miles since she had left the wreck. The men in the Captain's boat had eaten their Inst biscuit xt midday on Friday and they were already suffering from hunger when the gunboat. picked them up. They reached Shanghai on Saturday morning ahead of the Mfyrmiden, and Captain Prentice immediately reported thi wreck to Messrs. Gibb, Li Ca,, the agents, and atthe Consulate, at the same time stating that the second boat was adrift somewhere, and that the crew had nothing to eat. Vice-Consul Playfair hurried on board HMS. Linnet and informed Captain Tisdall, who wit mendable promptitude at once ordered steam, 808 to go out and search for the missing boat, but as the Afyrmidon arrived shortly afterwards, it was fortunately unnecessary for the Linnet to go out. As soon as it became known that the captain and is boat's crew had arrived, Mr. Eveleigh, the Superintendent of the Sailors' Home, went off to the Chaowo in a steam launch and brought them and the boat up to the settlement and tonk them into the Home, where they are now with the rest of the crew. The Holme Eden was a vessel of 1,453 tons nett, and 2,219 tons gross re-She was about two years old, and iron bulkheads. She left Antwerp ruary 2nd with a general cargo for the East, "Captain Prentice asks us on If of himself, his officers and crew, to publicly thank the Captain of the Chaoteo, and Captain Nelson and all on board When Captain Prentice went on board the Mfyrmidon on Saturday afternoon, he found his men who had been rescued by her going aft to Captain Nelson to thank him for his kindness to them.
Te will be remembered that the Hamilla Mitchell was lot on the Leuconnas many years ago, and the Charles 8. Whitney grazed one of the rocks this time last year while on hor way up to Shanghai,
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