SUNK IN HARBOUR
EXCURSION STEAMER.
TWO HUNDRED ON BOARD.
SOME BELIEVED TO BE LOST. (Per Press Association —Copyright.) (Received This Day, 11.20 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 27. The excursion steamer, Gratitude, with 200 people on board, sank in harbour at Norfolk, Virginia. It is believed that most of the passengers were taken off in smnll "bents. The Gratitude was returning from an excursion with the employees of the Texas Oil Company and their families. Some of those taken off sought refuge on a sunken barge, standing on the deck deep in water, and it is thought possibly others were carried away by the tide.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 10169, 28 July 1924, Page 5
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