CUNARD LINER ASHORE
IN DANGER OF SINKING IN RIVER ST. LAWRENCE Passengers Removed to Quebec CARGO INCLUDES BIG GOLD SHIPMENT Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.10 p.m.) QUEBEC, July 4. The Cunard liner Ascania is hard aground on Bic Island, close to the spot where the wreck of the Empress of Ireland claimed twelve hundred lives. The passengers have been removed to Quebec. City. Water is pouring into the holds of the vessel, which threatens to sink, with a cargo including 1,500,000 dollars’ worth of gold, consigned to London by the Bank of Canada. Bic Island is in the St Lawrence about 160 miles below Quebec. The river at that point is well over twenty miles wide.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 July 1938, Page 8
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117CUNARD LINER ASHORE Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 July 1938, Page 8
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