STEAMER SINKS.
THE CREW'S TRYING TIME.
By TeleeraDh—Press Assoclatlon-Onnyrlirtit. ' Sydney, May 23. News has been received that tho steamer Kirkfield, 3602 tons gross, from Christmas Island to Kobe, Japan, struck a shoal in tho Palawan Passage, Malay Archipelago. The crew strovo for seven days to keep tho vessel afloat, but sho sank. The crow reached Balabac (south-west' of Palawan) in boats, after a trying journey of thirty-ono houTS. [The Kirkfield was a steel screw steamer, built in 1896 by Barbara and Sons, Sunderland, and was owned by tho Kirkfield Steamship • Company, Ltd. (J. R, Cuthbertson ana Co.). Her dimensions were: Length, 314 ft.; breadth. 45ft.; depth, 18ft; 2in.] '
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 824, 24 May 1910, Page 5
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108STEAMER SINKS. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 824, 24 May 1910, Page 5
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