Schooner Lost
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Old "Manureva" on Reef in Australs
Papeete, June 10.
THE old schooner, “Manureva,” owned by the Co-operative Society of Rurutu, but under charter to M.
Louis Tranchand, a Papeete soap manu facturer, was wrecked on a reef off Tubuai (Austral Islands) on the night of March 6, while en route to Papeete. She was carrying 18 passengers, 15 tons of produce and, on deck, seven tons of pigs, three cattle and one horse. The passen gers and most of the livestock were saved.
The little ship encountered erratic winds and very thick weather after leav
ing Tubuai lagoon and, in the darkness, she blundered on the reef, about two miles from shore.
About midnight, as the sea was rising, two passengers (Ahumai a Nauta, of Tubuai, and Jean-Baptiste Voirin, of Rurutu), with the supercargo and two sailors, left the wreck in an attempt to swim ashore. They succeeded, and by 4 a.m, boats from Tubuai had commenced the work of rescue.
Neither ship nor cargo was insured.