DISASTER FEARED
NINE SHIPS MISSING OFF NEWFOUNDLAND
THREE PILOTS DROWNED United /*. A. —By Telegraph—Copyright (Received 10.50 a.m.) ST. JOHN’S (Newfoundland), Wed. Another Newfoundland disaster was feared on Wednesday, when silence continued to conceal the fate of 70 persons, including four women, aboard nine missing vessels that left on Friday for Bonavista ports. The searching steamers reported no success. The hurricane that overtook the vessels after they landed their summer catch of fish, and loaded their winter supplies, wrecked at least three other schooners, whose crews were rescued, and battered a number of steamers. After fighting the storm off the coast for five days, and burning all the woodwork when her fuel was exhausted, the Norwegian steamer Hertha was towed into port on Wednesday, reporting that three pilots were drowned off the headlands, when the pilot-boat 'capsized as they were attempting to board the Hertha. One pilot was saved.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 838, 5 December 1929, Page 1
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