Main arrived here safely on Sunday, 26th!
Cay Croal and the crew of the Anne Jan., in one of the small steamers attached to the Sasebo dock yard. The vessel, as previously stated, left Shanghai on the 17th instant, in ballast, for this port. Very heary weather was experienced on the evening of the 20th, while attempting to weather the north end of the Getes, a! perfect gale setting in from the NW. In spite of every effort, the vessel became embayed, and at about 2.30 am, drove ashore at Naka-Kurase. A line was of ashore by one of the crew, and by the aid of this all hands managed to get ashore, with the exception of an unfortunate Chinaman, an A, B., whose body was picked up and buried the following day. The natives ashore treated the shipwrecked men with the greatest kindness, and they remained there until taken off by the vessel in charge of Lieutenant Yeshima, on Sunday. Contrary to the report already received here, neither the Captain nor any other members of the crewwereinjnred. They lost practically all their personal belongings, however. A few hours after the crew got ashore the masts went by the board, while the vessel commenced to rapidly break up, and now remains almost entirely submerged, in a condition which precludes all hope'of her being raised.
The official enquiry into the wreck of the vessel was held yesterday morning at the British Consulate. The Court was composed of J. J. Quin, Esq, H.B.M.'s Consul, and Lieutenants R. E. R. Benson, R¥., and M. 8. Pasley, R.¥., of H.M.S, Porpoise. After hearing the evidence of Captain Croal and Messrs. Sharpe and Barnett, the chief and second officers, judgment was delivered to the effect that the vessel was well found in every respect, that the conduct of the officers and crew was satisfactory and free from Dlame, and that, in the opinion of the Court, the intention of the Captain in trying to enter the Tsuwa-saki Channel at night was imprudent in the extreme, and that he was guilty of an error in judgment in continuing on the tack he did in such weather until the failure of the ship to stay involved certain disaster." The expenses of the Court (£2) to be paid by the Master.—Rising Sun, 29th Jan.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.