STEAMER ON ROCKS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 764, 10 September 1929, Page 1

STEAMER ON ROCKS

EVERYONE GETS SAFELY ASHORE ADMIRABLE DISCIPLINE (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) (United ServiceJ Reed. 10 a.m. LONDON, Monday. A message from Vigo, in Spain, states that, preserving admirable order and discipline, all the 60 passengers and 150 officers and crew were safely landed when the Nelson liner Highland Pride struck a rock outside Vigo Harbour iu a heavy rainstorm. All the life-saving orders were carried out with precision and calmness. The passengers, taking their cue from the stewards, calmly collected their valuables and boarded the allotted boats. When all the passengers were afloat, Captain Alford shouted from the bridge the name of an hotel where they would find accommodation ready. Meanwhile, the engineers and firemen drew the fires to prevent any explosion. Trawlers which were summoned by wireless towed the boats to port, all arriving sound, but drenched with rain. The ship is stuck fast on the rocks. She is badly holed and half submerged. The captain was loath to leave the ship, but the officers seized him and carried him to a boat. The Highland Pride, a steamer of 7,169 tens, was built in 1910 by Russell and Company, Port Glasgow, for the Nelson Steam Navigation Company, Limited (H. and W. Nelson, Ltd., managers). She is registered at London.