RAN ON ROCKS IN FOG
FREIGHTER TOTAL WRECK CREW RESCUED BY TUGS (Australian atod N.Z. Press Association) (Received 12.50 p.m.) CAPETOWN, Tuesday. r PHE American freighter West- -*■ ern Knight, ran on the rocks in a dense focj eight miles south of Port Elizabeth. The crew and five passengers were rescued by tugs. The ship is a total wreck. The Western Knight, a steamer of 5,779 tons, was built at Seattle in 1919 and is owned by the AmericanSouth African Line. She was registered at New York.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 634, 10 April 1929, Page 9
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86RAN ON ROCKS IN FOG Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 634, 10 April 1929, Page 9
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