THE FIFESHIRE WRECK.
BOAT CREW'S PERILOUS EXPERIENCE. By Telecraph-Press Association-Oopyrteht London, August 18. Splendid discipline was displayed on the liner Fifeshiro when slio struct: at Cape Gardafui, in the Gulf of Adeo. The passengers were calm. The chief' officer (Mr. Woods), with some of the crew, left to seek (issistanco on the high seas. The boat threatened to be swamped by a steamer which passed close to tliem on Sunday, nut railed to see tiiom. Evontually the men were rescued, three hundred and fifty miles from the wreck. They were greatly exhausted. They had five ounces of water daily for five days. The heat was intense. In another two days all would hav6 been dead.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1211, 21 August 1911, Page 5
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115THE FIFESHIRE WRECK. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1211, 21 August 1911, Page 5
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