STEAMER ON ROCK.
i'IVK HUNDIIKD PASSENGERS IN PERIL.
London, June 17. The IrLali express .steamer Aiigliu, wilh Sim passengers on board, rau ashore on a partially submerged rock between tins Xorth and South Stacks, Holyhead, during a thick fog early un Saturday morning. As the vessel struck the great Trinity House fog gun went oil just over the heads of those oil board, causing the impression that an explosion had occurred. The lifebelts were made ready within three minutes, but tliev were not needed, fortunately. The vess.-l was got oil' in twenty mill l utes. ;uhl steamed slowly into Holyhead, where -die was dry-docked. it was found that twenty-nne .-<juare feet of her bow lnid been carried awav. and the sice 1 plates twisted into fantastic shapes. The spot where the vessel struck is one of the most dangerous on the const, th" elill overhead having a sheer drop of 400 (Vet, and tlie tide running along the b;i>o of the mountain like a millstream
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 17 August 1907, Page 4
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165STEAMER ON ROCK. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 17 August 1907, Page 4
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