MANY WRECKS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1652, 20 January 1913, Page 7

MANY WRECKS.

VERONESE A TOTAL LOSS,

170 STILL ABOARD.

Sy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright

. London, January 17. The Liverpool-Brazil Company's 7(100ton liner Veronese, which has been wrecked on the Portuguese coast, near Oporto, is a total loss.

Enormous seas washed her decks, malting it impossible to use rocket lines for hours.

A breeches buoy arrived on board at seven o'clock, and eighty-four of the pas-' sengers have already been saved. Sixteen people wero drowned through tho breaking of a cable. The rescue continues, but is progressing slowly. '(Rec. January 19, 5.5 p.m.) Lisbon, January 18. Tho increasing gale hampered the rescue, and, 170 persons remain aboard the vessel, which lies three hundred yard 9 off shore, with a heavy 6ea sweeping over her. Twenty English passengers . are on board. Some 150 emigrants had embarked, at Vigo., Many of the viotims are children. Gunboats have been dispatched to the scene of the wreck to assist. SUNK IN COLLISION. London, January 17. The Anchen Steam Shipping Company's steamer Auchenarden, 3543 tons, and the Argentine Cargo Company's liner La Blanca, 6813 .tons, collided during a fog oh tho Mersey, The Auchenarden. sank, but her crew was picked up by the La Blanca, which had previously rescued another' shipwrecked crew. ABANDONED ON FIRE. (R*o. January 19, 5.5 p.nT.) v Aden, January 18. The Russian , steamer Eatonia has been abandoned on fire at sea. Eleven men are missing,' including the captain. HEAVT UNDERWRITING LOSSES. (Rec. January 19, 5.5 p.m.) ' ' London, January 18.. The shipping disasters on Friday involved the underwriters in a loss of half a million sterling, in addition to a million lost in the recent gales.