The condition of this ship proved to be nothing like so serious as was believed on the strength of the telegram received last Saturday morning by H.B.M.'s Consul here. That telegram, I am_ told, was kindly conveyed from the ship to shore by a Japanese boat which put off to the disabled vessel immediately the storm went down; and the journey from the vessel to the nearest telegraph station occupied an entire day. At first it was given out that Messrs. Nickel & Co.'s steam tug had been chartered to proceed to the vessel, which was then said to be ashore, but the arrangement fell through and ultimately the Nippon Yusen Kaisha s.s. Tokio Maru, Captain Kenderdine, was engaged to goto her assistance; and she got away on Saturday at midnight. Arriving off the scene of the dunster at about daylight the vessel was found to he lying at anchor with her foretopmast and topgallantmast and main topgallant mast and yards ete. gone, and with boats either smashed in or missing. She had been within twenty feet of the reefs, and how she escaped—how her anchors held (one as a matter of fact did carry away and was lost)—is little short of a mystery. The steamer took her in tow at 9.20 a.m. on Sunday and after an uneventful ran up, arrived safely in Kobe harbour at 3.30 p.m. A representative of Messrs. Browne & Ca., agents for the Underwriters, Captain Bur dis, Marine Surveyor, and one or two others were on board. The captain and officers of the disabled vessel express themselves in the highest terms as to the hearty kindness shown to them in their distress by the Japanese of the district near which she ran such a narrow risk of being wrecked. The Kii Channel is a treacherous place in the typhoon reason and rarely does a yeat pass without some mishap or wreck occurring there.
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