SCHOONER STRIKES A WHALE.
(ABANDONED IN MID-OCEAN. tT Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrfsht London. July 8. The schooner Empire struck a- whale In mid-Atlantic, * and was 80 seriously damaged that she sprang nleak, and the crew was forced to abandon her. Four days later they wm« rescued, after being threo daysin the boats. There .were six: members in the crew »od one passenger. They rowed 120 -miles tetrards land before being picked up by a fishing johooner.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1488, 10 July 1912, Page 5
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74SCHOONER STRIKES A WHALE. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1488, 10 July 1912, Page 5
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