SHIPPING DISASTER.
LOSS OF THE ELLAN VAKNIN.
ALL ON HOARD DROWNED.
VESSEL SWAML'ED BY ENORM-
OUS SEA
United Press Association By Electric Teiegrap Copyight, Received December 7, 9 a.m. LONDON, December 6. Further particulars with respect to the loss on the Mersey bar of the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company's iron twin screw steamer Elian Vannin, 380 tons gross, while voyaging from the Isle of Man to Liverpool, show that the vessel was swamped by an enormous sea and sank instantly. None of those on board were saved.
Many were drowned while sleeping in their berths.
The vessel's complement was twenty-one of a crew and twelve passengers.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAG19091208.2.25
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9670, 8 December 1909, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
108SHIPPING DISASTER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9670, 8 December 1909, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in