LOSS OF A TUG.
BOARD OF TRADE INQUIRY. Received September 11, 83.U a.m. LONDON, September 10. A Board of Trade enquiry regarding the losa of the tug Belmore on June 23rd, while on the voyage to Sydney, found that she was overladen when she left Port Said—the Plimsoll mark being submerged—and that her stability was insufficient. The British tug Belmore, 168 tons Captain Murchie, foundered after shipping a heavy sea twenty miles from shore. She was bound from the Clyde to Sydney. The survivors (the second officer, a seaman, and a fireman) were fifteen hours in the water before they reached Ras Ajir, a point on the western extremity of the Tripoli coast-line, where they were rescued. The crew numbered I eleven.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9190, 12 September 1908, Page 5
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122LOSS OF A TUG. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9190, 12 September 1908, Page 5
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