AN OCEAN TRAGEDY.
\ •0t» I DEATH AND DISEASE. . /By Ca,ble—Press Association—Copyright, j Received 5, 10.20 p.m. Fremantle, May 5. I A boat with four sick and famished r> men has arrived at Dongarra from the . Norwegian ship Victor, bound from i Delagoa Bay to New Caledonia. When . forty miles off the coast she was prac- . tieally in an abandoned condition, with . disease aboard and a shortage of pro- . visions. They asked for assistance to navigate her to port. Shortly after .leaving Delagoa Bay she ran into a storm, and was damaged. Disease then broke out. The captain and chief officer died on April 8, and two of the crew on April 10. Later, food ran short, some time before she made the Westralian coast. Those aboard were too few and , too weak to navigate her, and assistance . was sent for.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 295, 6 May 1913, Page 5
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140AN OCEAN TRAGEDY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 295, 6 May 1913, Page 5
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