SAVED BY A BULKHEAD.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 695, 21 December 1909, Page 7

SAVED BY A BULKHEAD.

STEAMER'S BOW SMASHED. CRASIIUD INTO A CLIFF DURING A FOG. Iliy ToUgriLpn.-Frits AincUllon-Coojrlctat I Sydrtoy, Decombor 20. Tho Illawarra and South Coast Steam Navigation Company's steel ECrew steamer Eden, 693 tons, arrived last night, wita her bow badly smashed. During a dense fog the vessel crashed into a high cliff at Capo St. George, about 150 miles south of Sydney. Hor forward bulkhead Bayed her from sinking. She had ono hundred passengers aboard. Altho'igh tho forward compartment was flooded, tho vossol was able to niako port. Her forefoot was comploUsly torn away. ' The cliff loomed out of tho fog suddenly, and the ve-«l was bronght up standing by tho impact before tho order "Full speed astern I" could bo carried out. Tho shook throw many passengers off theit feet. Tho boats were got out and the passenger* served with lifebelts, but tho steamer meanwhile 'shwred off. An examination showed that the vessel was perfectly dry from the bulkhead aft. DAMAGE TO A P. AND O. STEAMER. Londin, December 19. The P. and O. Steam Navigation Company's steamer China, 7912 toDS gross, damaged her niddor at Tilbury. ' Her passengers have been scut to Marseilles to join tho company's steamer Persia, which replaces the China.