STEAMERS STRANDED
CAPE LIGHT MISTAKEN IN BLINDING STORM. (Received Last Night, 9.35 o'clock.) TANGIER, December 14. The Delhi went aground on the sandbanks two hundred yards from the caves of Hercules at one o'clock in the morning. The Spanish brigantine Vocador and the French cruiser Chateau Renault were stranded near by. It is supposed that the Delhi and Chateau Renault mistook till© Capt Spa reel light in< the blinding storm. There was no panic among the Delhi's passengers, who included the Duke and Duchess of Fife. They were summoned to the saloon deck. There was no time to and some were only in nightdresses The vG.ssel soon had a strong List. The water entered the lower cabins. The passengero donned lifebelts, •and the gale continued throughout the night, great waves breaking over the vessel. Spray was thrown seventy feet above the masts. Owing to the buffeting the Delhi began to drift broadside on toward the shore, .when a wireless message was received from Gibraltar- and battleships: in London. The Duke of Edinburgh's cruiser Weymouth, . with an artillery -party and life-saving apparatus have started at full speed for the scene.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10503, 15 December 1911, Page 5
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189STEAMERS STRANDED Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10503, 15 December 1911, Page 5
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