WRECKED
A CATTLE STEAMER. NINETEEN OF CREW/ MISSING. BT CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION--COPYRIGHT LONDON. July 13. The crew ,of nineteen then of the Cork cattle steamer Lismore are missing. vessel tv as wrecked on the Wexford coast on Thursday when en route to Liverpool. .. f The first news of the disaster was the washing ashore of a body. It is supposed the vessel rah on a sand-bank in a fog and turned- turtle. Carey, a’survivor-from the. Lismore, says a list to port was noticed on Friday. Nothing could be done to right the ship, and the captain ordered the. lifeboats to be lowered. While this was being done the Lismore overtinned. ; Carey was sucked under, and when lie came to the surface he grasped a .ship’s hatch floating by. With empty wooden cases die • constructed a 'rude raft, and jn the dark struggled in the rough sea' for four hours until dawn, when he tied hiihself to the raft. He atp seaweed to appease, »h is .hunger, and wks washed ashore thirty miles from the spot wljere ihe Lismore foundered. ‘ Afost pathetic? scenes were witnessed op : the quay at Cork, wives and children waiting *he>vs of . possible survivors. . ; ,
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 15 July 1924, Page 5
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196WRECKED Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 15 July 1924, Page 5
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