COLLISION IN A GALE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2921, 6 November 1916, Page 5

COLLISION IN A GALE

HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE 1 Anstralian-New Zealand Cable Association. (Rec. November 5, 5.5 p.m.) London, November 4. The -wreckages of five ships have been waßhed. ashore ini the Bristol Channel. , Shortly after leaving Greenoro for I Holyhead in a heavy gale, the NorthWestern Railway Company's steamer Connemara (833 tons) collided with tho steamer Retriever (459 tons, owned by the Clanrye S.S. Co.) outside Carlingford bar, and both sank. Only one survivor has' as yet been, reported. Many bodies have been washed ashore on the County Down coast. The Cotmemara carried fifty-one passengers and thirty of a crew, and it is believed that all perished. The whole of the Retriever s crew of thirteen, with one exception, was drowned. It was impossible to launch the boats owing to the hurricane. The sole survivor of the Retriever's crow was a, seaman, who drifted ashore on an upturned boat. Ho states that tho Retriever became unmanageable in the gale, and Tammed the Connemara. She carried a largo cargo of horses and cattle. Forty-three bodies have been recovered.