THE DRUMMOND CASTLE.
The Drommond Castle was travelling at the rate of fourteen miles an hour when she struck, and sank in twenty fathoms of water. The engineers prevented nn explosion of the boilers by letting off steam. Mr Markuardt, the surviving passenger from the ill fated steamer Drumniotid Castle, states that the shock when the vessel Btruck was only light, and that there was any danger was probably not known until the vessel began to sink. A concert had just been concluded. A female passenger, the fourth officer, another passenger and himself, he says, were astride a rail all night, he alone being rescued by fishermen after being in the water for twelve hours. Some women of Breton launched a lifeboat to search for survivors.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2064, 23 June 1896, Page 2
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126THE DRUMMOND CASTLE. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2064, 23 June 1896, Page 2
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