SIXTEEN DROWNED
CAUGHT IN WALL OF WATER
LOST IN SIGHT OF LAND
Uuitcd Press Association—By Electric Tele-
graph—Copyright.
LONDON, 6th December
At the height of the gale the collier Frances Duncan, on her way from Cardiff to Eouen, two miles off shore, was caught in a veritable wall of water near Penzanee and heeled over like a child's toy, and the water closed over her. When she reappeared she was lying on her side and.she sank in full view of the shore and the steamer Alice Marie which was nearby. Sixteen out of twenty-one of the crew were'drowned. Most of the men were trapped below, but by a miracle five wore saved, thanks to the pluck, quickness, and remarkable seamanship of the Alice Marie. It was a vivid drama to those ashore watching jirst the Prances Duncan's I fight against the gale, then the disaster, and finally the astonishing rescues
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 138, 7 December 1929, Page 9
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150SIXTEEN DROWNED Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 138, 7 December 1929, Page 9
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