LINER FIRMLY STRANDED

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 794, 15 October 1929, Page 1

LINER FIRMLY STRANDED

Runs Ashore in a Fog EMPRESS OF CANADA’S PERIL Ninety-Six Persons Hurt (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) Australian anti N.Z. Press Association (United Service) VANCOUVER, Sunday. rIE liner Empress of Canada went ashore in a heavy fog in the Strait of Juan de Fuea, Vancouver Island. All her passengers have been disembarked. The vessel was returning from England, where she had undergone an extensive overhaul.

Of the passengers and crew 96 were injured when the steamer struck.

The Empress of Canada is the largest liner plying on the Pacific Coast. She is piled up in sight of the Empress Hotel at Victoria. The vessel’s two captains and a pilot were on the bridge. Yet the huge liner evidently lost her way in the fog, for she was miles outside her proper course. Her bows are within 50ft of a residence on the beach. Several tugs were used in an attempt to pull the v.essel off tonight, but they were not successful. The weather is calm, but a southeasterly wind would spell disaster. The Empress of Canada is a steel twin screw steamer of 21,517 tons gross register. She was built in 1922 by the Fairfield Company, Limited, at Glasgow', and is owned by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. Her port of registry is London, England.

The Strait of Juan de Fuca, where the vessel went ashore, connects the Gulf of Georgia with the Pacific and separates Vancouver Island on the north from the State of Washington, United States, on the south. It is S 3 miles long and 12 miles wide. GERMAN SHIP BLOWS UP LINER’S THRILLING RACE TO SAVE CREW S.O.S. SENT JUST IN TIME (United ) Reed. 10 a.m. COLOMBO, Monday. The German cargo liner Hochst exploded off Minicoy Island, where she stranded on a reef. For 20 days a fire raged aboard her, and the crew of 28 took to the lifeboats after sending a radio S.O.S. The liner Mathura rushed to the rescue, and saved all the crew; but there is no news of her captain. The German liner Lauterfels, which went to the rescue of the Hochst, and herself went aground, is still on the reef, three attempts to tow her off having failed. The Lauterfels had one woman passenger. She donned a boiler suit and was lowered by ropes to a lifeboat, and taken on board a passing liner. The Hochst’s wireless call was sent only just in time, a second explosion blowing the transmitter to pieces.