SHIP SMASHED ON CLIFF
EIGHT LIVES LOST TRAWLER IN THE ORKNEYS By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright: LONDON, Monday. Eight lives were lost when the Hull trawler Lord Devonport, of 338 tons, was wrecked on Hoy Island, Orkney, Scotland. The foundered vessel lay helpless in the waves at the foot of the cliffs. Seven members of the crew, including the captain, were swept overboard or died from exposure. Another man became demented and had to be tied to a stanchion. He died before help arrived. Rockets failed to reach the vessel, but the crew of a lifeboat dragged six survivors through the surf with ropes after a 12 hours’ battle. —Sun. Hoy, a hilly and treeless island, forms the western boundary of- Scapa Flow, where the Grand Fleet was based during the war. On the western side Hoy drops sheer into the Atlantic, some of the cliffs being the highest in Great Britain. It was off the Flow side of Hoy . that the German Fleet was scuttled in 1919, and on its shores several of the ships were beached.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 309, 21 March 1928, Page 9
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177SHIP SMASHED ON CLIFF Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 309, 21 March 1928, Page 9
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