TRANSPORT WRECKED
TRAGEDY NEAR ALASKA SEATTLE, Nov. 25,
A coastguard plane reported that the American Army transport Clarksdale Victory, which carried a crew of 51. had broken in half on Hippa Island, and three survivors were sighted on a beach, according to a report ftom Ketchikan. Alaska. The Clarksdale Victory had earlier radioed SOS signals for a time, then there was silence. The Alaska Steamship Company’s ship Denali, which raced to the area, notified coastguard headquarters that it was “ impossible to land in a lifeboat. The breakers are 50 feet high outside the wreckage.” Two American coastguard cutters and a Canadian rescue party are expected to reach the wreck late to-day. A coastguard plane dropped equipment and supplies to the survivors. The coastguard party which reached the Clarksdale Victory reported that all the crew apparently perished in the gale-lashed seas when the after section slipped into deep water. There is no sign of life on board the bow section which is the only part of the ship visible above the water. Searchers suggested the possiblity that three men sighted earlier from the aircraft were natives who came to view the wreckage and then left.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26629, 27 November 1947, Page 5
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194TRANSPORT WRECKED Otago Daily Times, Issue 26629, 27 November 1947, Page 5
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