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ARRIVES AFTER BATTLE WITH GALES. LUnited Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] (Received this dav at, 9. a.m.l LONDON, December 18. After a thrilling battle with gales three Dutch tugs brought the disabled liner “Jamaica Settler’’ to Falmouth. A terrific tidle wave-like seat smashA terrible tidal wave-like sea smashlantic. She drifted at the mercy of the storm for a week after which a tug picked up her S.O.S. and took the liner in tow. The hawsers parted and the tug was driven off after she had gone 100 miles. A second tug arrived and afer a fortnight’s voyage the hawsers were snapped by successive hurricanes. A third tug was dispacthed ricanes. A third tug was dispatched and towed the “Jamaica Settler” a thousand miles.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 December 1929, Page 5
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