VESSELS ASHORE.
PERILOUS EXPERIENCES. Received 4, 1 a.m. London, Feb. 2 The Narran Gansett, carrying two thousand British troops from Havre to Southhampton, waa stranded off Bernbridge during a snowstorm on Friday night. Destroyers, tugs and lifeboats, also cross chancel ferry train, rescued all the troops. The American steamer Piave, with a cargo of bacon for Holland, was stranded on the Goodwin Sanda Efforts were made to refloat her For two days she crew remained aboard- The vessel suddenly broke asunder on Friday night with a deafening report There were exciting scenes in rescuing the cvew vwing to the darkness and the failure oi the electric light. Tugs and other boati assisting in the refloating eventually picked up most of the crew. Twenty are still missing.—'Aus.-NT.Z. Cable Assoc.
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 February 1919, Page 5
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128VESSELS ASHORE. Taranaki Daily News, 4 February 1919, Page 5
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