LINER MINED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 January 1940, Page 5

LINER MINED

WHEN ABOUT TO ENTER PORT LASCAR KILLED & THIRTEEN INJURED. DAMAGED SHIP TOWED INTO HARBOUR. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, January 7. The liner City of Marseilles has been mined off Scotland. One Lascar was killed and thirteen were injured. The liner, badly holed amidships and damaged internally, was towed into port. A pilot cutter had just put the pilot aboard when an explosion heaved a huge spout of water and mud skywards, bruised Captain E. Olsen, blew the officer at the liner’s telegraph six feet into the air and wrecked two lifeboats in the davits. The remaining boats were lowered, but two were capsized, throwing fourteen members of the crew into the sea. Three clung to the liner's rudder. A boat from the cutter picked up the remainder. A lifeboat, which had been guided to the scene by a Royal Air Force plane, towed four boats to port. The injured were sent to hospital. Twelve of the 26 European members of the crew remained aboard throughout the night. The remainder of those rescued, including 123 Lascars, returned to the liner in lifeboats and a tug to help bring her into port. INTERIOR A SHAMBLES (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 10.10 a.m.) RUGBY. January 7. According to an agency message the City of Marseilles was towed into port this afternoon. There was very little external damage to the ship but the interior was a shambles. LOST WITH ALL HANDS BRITISH TRAWLER COLLIDES WITH LINER. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) RUGBY. January 7. The .Admiralty announces the loss.

with all hands, of H.M. trawler Kingston Cornelian, as the result of a collision with a Frencn liner. PROMPT RESCUE EFFORT. BUT NO SURVIVORS FOUND. (Received This Day. 10 a.m.) GIBRALTAR. January 7. The British patrol trawler Kingston Cornelian, under the command of Captain William Green, sank with all seventeen hands after a collision with the French liner Chella in the Straits of Gibraltar. Boats were swiftly lowered from the Chella but found no survivors. The Choll.Ts bow was damaged.