STRANDED STEAMER
PASSENGERS AND CREW RESCUED. SHIP MAY BE TOTAL LOSS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) MELBOURNE. November 24. The passengers and crew of the inter-State steamer which stranded on Thursday night outside the entrance to Port Phillip Bay was rescued by a lifeboat on Saturday. The vessel may become a total loss. She is held fast between two reefs and there is five feet of water in the holds. CAUSE OF DISASTER. BAD VISIBILITY BLAMED. (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. Salvage officers and others on Saturday attempted to get aboard the stranded steamer without .success, owing to heavy seas still buffeting the vessel, which was carrying a considerable cargo. The chief officer attributes the stranding to very bad visibility and a dangerous set of current. No effort is yet being made to get rid of the sunken mine-sweeper Goorangi, at Port Phillip Heads. Divers will report on the derelict when the rough weather at present prevailing abates. No bodies of members of the crew have so far been recovered.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 November 1940, Page 6
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171STRANDED STEAMER Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 November 1940, Page 6
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