RAMMING A BERG.

Taihape Daily Times, 27 September 1919, Page 3

RAMMING A BERG.

ALLAN LINER’S ADVENTURE. GREAT DISASTER NARROWIJ ‘ AVERTED. Two men were killed ‘and -two In~ jured wholl the Allan liner Grampian. bound from Montreal to Liverpasul, eellided with an iceberg off Cape Race on the night of 9th July. The steamship, with 750 passengers and a creiv of 350, arrived at St. John’s, Newfound.:‘m(l, next morning for repairs. The killel and injured were members of the er:-nv who were asleep in the bow of tbs ship when she .sfrm..-3.. Virtually all ’ the passen-<Dn;*l's were :z\\'al(c, but ultlmllgll fll(‘l‘£‘ \\'z,‘l‘(‘ mare rl1:*-.71 500 wolnen and <:hil«lr(.-n :Ib;‘»al'<l il‘iol'o was lifrfle ruzttitennent and no panic.

'i‘h:.x:‘ the (‘rl':unpial.. did.nOt Suifer the fafe of the Titanic, VviHl considerable loss of life, is believer.’ fin have bow. due to the action of the <-..l.rptain in his decision to i#rl'iko the iceboffr how on,

l!lSt(,‘21(1; Of tflkilig L 1 g‘]:‘ulc,ing 'A3FI\\-' 011 the side. The berg, which was very large, was cncoulrtmed 25 milw~‘ 011'Cape Race. When it was first sighted through the fog it was foo late to clear it.-although the ship was proceeding slowly. The captain said that he believed that 2, glancing blow which wbvuld tear through the ship ’s side would sink hdr.

The course was changed, and the. Gram. pian struck. the ice mountain squarely head-on. The entire forcpart of the ship was sxnashed in above the waterline, however, as the portion of "the berg whch she struck proved to be an qverhangng‘ shelf.

It was found that the linex-h" ad. taken no watei', and she was 11ea-fled for St. John’s, stemming all night against. :1 heavy gale, which caused Vgreaf anxiety am-Cnr,_>; those on bZ)zu'd. Repairs will "take 'several weeks. Passengers who were in the smoking-I'o-om. at the time of the collision, said that the blow was a. slight: one. and -they were not stirred frmn their seats.

T'h(_3 tvso anon killed were stos\'al‘ds. Their bodies \\'m'v czuiglit in the mass of xvrocliugu of the bow, and had not been rocovoi-ocl when the Grampian rcnchcil port. The steward and stoke!‘ Wllo were injured by pieces of the wood tom loose in the collision, were not seriously lxurt.