STEAMER CITRINE
WRECKED' ON ISLE OF .MAN. United Pres., Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received this day at it.4o a.m.) LONDON, March 18. I lie steamer Citrine hound from Glasgow to North Wales was wrecked on the isle of Man. Ten lives were lost. FURTHER.' PARTICULARS. LONDON March 18. The steamer Citrine .struck- the rocks off Brnddn Head during a fog, the crush shaking the ship like a match hOx. The vessel was badly hol’d U the port how, and lilled and sank hef'-n- a hoar could lie launched. Two .survivors buttled ashore throiod' 'Hie icy breakers, clinging (o an oar and lifebelt. They miraculously scaled a five hundred feet cliff and remained on the rocks till daybreak, when they aroused tig. inmates of a larmhouse. A life boat from the Douglas ascertained tile extent ot the disaster.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 March 1931, Page 6
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136STEAMER CITRINE Hokitika Guardian, 19 March 1931, Page 6
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