NEW MOTOR-SHIP ON REEF.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20091, 21 November 1930, Page 11

NEW MOTOR-SHIP ON REEF.

apparently DOOMED.

ORDEAL of passengkrs

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TELEGRAPH -COPYKZGBT.) LISBON, November 19. The motor-ship Highland Hope, oi; 14.000 tons, struLE a reef in tho Faril--1 oes Islands at 4 o'clock this morning ui dense fog. Over 100 passengers embarked in six life-boats, in a pitiful plight, mostly half-dressed, and some t> n jy in their night clothes. " or J' , . l Kiiese trawlers, in response to u S 5.0.8. calls, were quickly oil the scene, and towed the boats safely to the shore. Some of tho crew were rescued similarly, the captain and the remainder of the crew remaining aboard to assist m the work of salvago. Steamers ■ire (speeding to the vessel's assistance. liie position of the Highland Hope is perilous, tihe is lying on dangerous locks, and ceased to reply to wireless calls at 10 o'clock. Hie Highland Hope's 535 passengers and crew, including 233 Spanish migrants, wore rescued. Ihe only one injured was a SpanlaJ!',' who jumped overboard. ihe passengers included Marv, I ucrhess of Hamilton, who is 76 years of ago.

Captain T, ,7. James, who was the xist ashore, stated that the ship apparently was doomed.

[lhp Farilhoes Islands are a small groi'p lymg in the Atlantic off the const of PortngrJ, north of Lisbon, iiie Highland llopo is a twin-screw motor-ship of 14.120 tons, built by norland and WoTTF, Ltd., at Glasgow, tins year. She is owned by thf NglXavl > "<'<>" Co., Ltd. She is .>-3ft long, G9ft beam, and 37ft depth. J SWEDISH FREIGHTER ABANDONED. macretania rescues crew. (Received Nov»>iv:b ,> p.m.) NEW YORi>. November 19. The Cunurd liner Mauretnnia, bentnig a number of other vessels, including tha America, commanded by Captain Fried of the Antinoe and Florida rescues, picked iiji 29 members of the crow, and tho wife of the captain, of th<> sinlc:ng Swedish freighter Ovidia. The Ovidia had been abandoned in a sti 'm in mid-Atlantic. Tho crew wore in two boats 4(X) miles south-east of Cape Knee.

The America was ten hours off its course in answering the Ovidia's S 0.5.. hut the preater speed of the Maiiretanlu brought her to the scene first. £The Ovid.a, a sier.incr of 3114 tons, was bui't at Sunderland in 1897. Her dimensions are: Length 325 feet, b-nadth -18 feet, depth 21ft fiin. Her Port, of registry is Gothenburg, Sweden.] COLLISION IN RIVER SCHELDT. FIVE PERSONS DROWNED. (Received November 21st, 1 a.m.) ANTWERP, November 20. Five persons were drowned in the Scheldt when the British steamer ITebble and a Continental freighter collided. Tho latter sank in a few minutes, the victims being trapped below.