COLLISION AT SEA.
VESSEL muNDERS SOUTH OF j . ELAND. TWENTY PERSONS DROWNED. (Rcci'ived August 15, 11.19 p.m.) LONDON, August 15. During hazy and stormy weather on Saturday night tlio ship Loch Can on collided with the barque Jnverkip, bound from Melbourne to Quec'Astown, with a cargo of wheat, eighty miles south-west of Fastuet. The Inverkip quickly settled down giving no time .to loww the boats, and foundered in two or three minutes. Twenty of the crew >vere drowned. The carpenter (Luhemaun), a seaman, and a steward were nlone saved by scrambling along the iyowspr.it to the other vessel. The captain's wife was seen aft, praying.
The Loch Canon's bows were damaged, but she has arrived in J ueen«town.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 190, 16 August 1904, Page 2
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118COLLISION AT SEA. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 190, 16 August 1904, Page 2
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