A SHIPWRECK
SURVIVORS ROUGH EXPERIENCE. Press Association— By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this day at 9 a.m.) OSLO, March 19. During a heavy snow storm, the steamer Hera of 1080 tons, mu ashore at Cliffs near Hammer!eist, the northern most town in Europe, and pounded to pieces. An officer swam ashore with a life line and fifty-six passengers and crew were saved. Six were drowned The survivors staggered into the village, after a terrible march across the mountains and ice. in a snow storm in which another died.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 March 1931, Page 5
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87A SHIPWRECK Hokitika Guardian, 20 March 1931, Page 5
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