LINERS ASHORE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 533, 14 June 1909, Page 7

LINERS ASHORE.

THE SLAVONIA. PROBABLY TOTAL WRECK AT FLO RES. PASSENGERS SAFE. (BY TETiEORAPH—FBES3 ASSOCIATION— COFTEIOBT.) v (Rco. June 13, 5.30 pjn.) London, Jnne 12. • The Cunard Company's steel twin-screw steamer Slavonia, 10,606 tons gross, built in 1903, while bound from New York to the Mediterranean, ran ashoro at Fibres, in tho Azores. . . > ■ Hie passengers, numbering 410, were taken off by other liners. It is feared that tho Slavonia is a total wreck. ■ [The Slayonia is aCnnard steamship of 10,600 tnos gross, engaged in the emigrant trade, undor subsidy by the Austrian Government, running between Trieste, Fium, Naples, and New York. It will be the first mishap to occur to the vessels of this line, which enjoy an unusual degree of popularity, owing to their modern and spacious accommodation and the exceptional enre taken of passengers. Tho establishment of this service' was at first considered somewhat hazardous, but results havo justified a phase of Cunard enterprise, which, liko othere—as, _ for instance, the adoption of the turbme principle *. of propulsion in mammoth liners—has issued- in great success.] ' ■ ■ . SPANISH STEAMER STRIKES NEAR NEW YORK. LIFEBOATS TAIfE .PASSENGERS. ■ . (Bee. Jnne 13, i p.m.) ~ New York, Juno 12. Tie Spanish steel Bcrow steamer Antonio Lopez, 5975. tons gross, built in 1891, is ashore. at Fire Island, near Now York—(a small island in the Great. South Bay;- south of Long Island, ■ having a lighthouse visible for 19 miles). . . : She had on board 526 passengers and a crow'of 135. The passengers wero rescued in lifeboats. ~ .;'.' FIRE ISLAND. : , Fire Island lightship.-five hours' steam from Sandy Hook, was formerly the first signalling station for ships westward bound from Europe for New,' York. Its use, however, has been superseded:by tho introduction of wireless telegraphy, the exact time of a ship's arrival now being ascertainable when at -least 600 or 1000 miles distant. Fire Island has always been a menace to navigation, particularly during fog, and it isthe invariable rule for incoming liners to drop anchor when the island is known to be abeam. It was at this point "hat tho Cunard liner .Oregon was mysteriously aunk some years ago. The einking of .the liner. Republic—notable for': the successful use , ' of ■ wireless telegraphy— took place about a hundrod'miles east of Tire Island, after collision with tho Italian emigrant steamer Florida. • / \ .