TEN LIVES LOST
SHIPWRECK ON ISLE OF MAN.
SURVIVORS’ HARDSHIPS. BATTLE THROUGH ICY BREAKERS (United .Press Association—Copyright). (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) LONDON, March 18. Tiie steamer Citrine, bound from Glasgow to .North Wales, was wrecked on the Isle of Man. Ten Jives were lost. The Citrine struck the rocks oil Bradda Head during a fog, the crash shaking the ship like/ a match-box.’ The vessel, which was badly holed in the port bow, tilled and sank before a boat could be launched. Two survivors battled ashore through icy. breakers, clinging to an oar and a lifebelt. They miraculously scaled a 500-foot cliff and remained on the rocks till daybreak, when they aroused the inmates of a farmhouse. The lifeboat from Douglas ascertained the extent of the disaster.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 51, Issue 134, 19 March 1931, Page 5
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