FIFESHIRE WRECKED.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1207, 16 August 1911, Page 5

FIFESHIRE WRECKED.

TWO BOATS MISSING. By Teleeraph—Press Assoclation-t-Copyrieht Aden, August U. The steamer Fifeshire is ashore twenty miles south of Cape Giiardafui, at. tho mouth of tho Gulf of Aden. The vessel is leaking badly. • Seventy-five of the passengers and crew landed at Aden. Two boats, with thirty souls on board, are missing. Later. The Fifcshiro has been abandoned, the vessel being submerged, Tho captain was saved. The steamer Dalhousie and the Italian gunboat Volturuo aro searching for rli- . missing boats, the passengers in which include two ladies. SYDNEY PASSENGERS AND CARGO. (Rec. August 16, 0.55 a.m.) Sydney, August 15. ~ The Fifeshire took twenty-three passengers and a large quantity of cargo from Sydney. Tho cargo was insured locally for between . .£20,000 and , .£30,000, tho amount being' distributed among many offices.

Tho Fifeshiro was bound from Albany to London at the tinva of the disaster. She is a vessol of 5504 tons gross, and was built at the Clydebank works in 1898. It is stated that only one other vessel of the Scottish Shire Line has tern lost. This was the Elginshire, which went ashore near Timaru on March 9, 1892, during a denss fop, and for many years lay on the rocks in full view of passing railway travellers.- The Perthshire in, 1899 was adrift with a broken shaft in the Tasmau Sea from April 28 to June 13, when the Talune picked her up and towsd her into Sydney.