Navigation Danger In Torres
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Uncharted Rocks.
Navigation Danger In Torres Strait.
From Our Own Correspondent.
Thursday Is., June 30.
THE B.P. steamer “Marella,” which was in port in the middle of the month on her way south, reports having struck an uncharted rock while on her trip up to Singapore.
There must still be many of these lurking dangers remaining undetected.
It was an uncharted rock which caused the loss of the “Quetta” near Thursday Island over 40 years ago—although some six years previously another ship had touched the rock but her master’s story was disbelieved.
Some three or your years back, divers working in the pearling fleet, operating over a patch of shell west of Thursday Island, near Booby Island, reported that they had found a big, uncharted rock upon the top of which a man could stand and touch the keel of the lugger above him. But, although search was made later, with a view to recording its position, it could not then be, located.