KANOWNA WRECKED
RESCUING PASSENGERS. (Australian Press Association) (United Service.) SYDNEY, Feb. 18. Later advice stated the Kamnvna is stranded at Cleft Island, seven miles south of Wilson’s Promonotory, and is making water in the engine room with a pronounced list to starboard. She is fast on the reef and her position is precarious. The steamers Nakarra and Ulooloo responded to the S.O.S. and are now taking off the passengers. The Kamnvna left Sydney on Saturday forenoon for Melbourne, Adelaide and Fremantle.
SYDNEY, Feb. 18. There is no further news of the Kanowna. Whether any lives were lost will not he known till the rescue vessels radio the result of their operations, probably after midnight. The scene of the disaster is inhospitable, miles from civilisation, and extremely dangerous to navigation. PASSENGERS SAFE. SYDNEY, Feb. 18. The freighter MacKa.rra transhipped the Kanowna’s passengers numbering ■two hundred. There is no immediate danger to the ship. The crew are remaining aboard. A tug will leave Melbourne to-night. The Canberra was expected to reach the stranded vessel in the early hours of the morning.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 February 1929, Page 5
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179KANOWNA WRECKED Hokitika Guardian, 18 February 1929, Page 5
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