A SEA TRAGEDY
STRANDED' STEAMER BREAKS ASUNDER TWENTY OF THE CREW ■MISSING - .-; <0y Telegraph-Press Assoclaiion-Copyriglit • (Reo. February 4, 1.20 a.m.) Paris, February 1. ■ The American steamer Piave, with a fcargo of bacon for Holland,, stranded on ..the Goodwin Sands.. Efforts were made . .to refloat her to two days, the crew re- : maining on-board. The vessel'suddenly broke asunder on Friday night with a '•';-. deafening report.' There were exciting . scenes during the rescuing of the crew 'owing to the darkness'and the failure of . the electric light. Tugs and other boats v •■: assisting in the refloating operations eventually . picked up most of the crew. .. Twenty are still missing.—Aus.-N.Z. .Cable Assn. / '. stranding~ofTtroopship ALL THE TROOPS RESCUED. . '' (Rec. February i, 1.20 a.m.) \ Paris, February 1. The-Narragansett, carrying two thou- ' sand British troons from Havre to Southampton,' stranded off' Bembridge during a snowstorm on Friday night. Destroyers, tugs, lifeboats, and a crossChannel ferry train rescued all the troops—Aua.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 111, 4 February 1919, Page 5
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154A SEA TRAGEDY Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 111, 4 February 1919, Page 5
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