STEAMER WRECKED
FIVE BODIES RECOVERED
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AN OFFICERS FATAL MISTAKE. Last Night, 10.3U o'clock.) SYDNEY, October 14. iFive bodies have been recovered from the wreck of the steamer Mac-k-ay. (None of them, have been identified with the exioeption #of Jones and Hansen, a fireman and seaman. ,
Tahell did not s>aii with the vessel, his place being taken by a seaman named McKenzie, who is amongst the massing. Peterson, one of the saved, who was at the- wheel when the vessel struck, states that the captain instructed' him to steer north-east. The mate took command, and ordered him to ailter the course to north by east. A few' ■ minutes later the steamer struck the rock.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10449, 14 October 1911, Page 5
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120STEAMER WRECKED Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10449, 14 October 1911, Page 5
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