WRECK OFF ISLE OF MAN
CRASH ON ROCKS IN FOG 1 ■"-l-■ ■ ■' :■' -.''.-.■..' '.■ '■ ■' ONLY T^YO SUEYIYOKS United .Press Association—By Electric Tele--1 ... '■;' ■ , graph—Copyright. .-.:■ . . ;■ (Eeceived. 19th March, 10 a.m.)/ '. j ■', ' ' LONDON, 18th March;;;: The steamer 'Citrine, \ bound from Glasgow to North Wales was .wrecked off the Isle of Man, with a loss of -ten lives. ■ / '. -, ■/;. "'■" ..' V '■'; .•'.'■/ '." -■: The . Citrine struck -the, rocks ; at Bradda Head during 'a fog with Ji crash which' shook v the ship like : a,matchbox.,] Sheclawed off/badly' holed in the'port bow - and filled and sank -before a boat., could .'be, launched. ' ".Two., survivors;, battled ashore, through''the icy breakers clinginy to, an bar and 'lifebelt/Almost by. a miracle, they 'seaied a ' 500----foot cliff. ;..They remained on the rocks*1 till: daybreak} when .they' aroused the' inmates of & farmhouse.' ■~ A lifeboat; from Douglas ascertained the extent. of. the disaster. ', ;', _.';■ ■ . .■■-,:■'. \J. -.. ':;;'.-; - ; .\
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 66, 19 March 1931, Page 13
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136WRECK OFF ISLE OF MAN Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 66, 19 March 1931, Page 13
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