THE TRANSPORT HERMES DRIVEN ASHORE.
TWO LIVES LOST
Following closely on the Tantallon Castle disaster a report reached Capetown of the loss of the transport Hermes, involving the loss of two passengers. During a heavy gale the Hermes, which was anchored in Table Bay, dragged her anchors and went ashore. She had on board a number of passengers- All vre^e safely got into the boat, which was at once headed for the shore, but it had only gone a very short distance when it capsized and its occupants were hurled into the breakers. Two of the married ladies were drowned, a third was stunned and seriously injured by the boat being driven with violence against her head, and the rest were only rescued with the greatest difficulty. The Hermes became a total wreck. She was a hired transport of 3500 tons, a new vessel, comparatively .speaking, and this was her third trip to Capetown, She hailed .from Buenos Ayres, with a consignment of' fodder for the military. She was built in 1899 by J. Plumer. at Liverpool. Capt. J. L. Lewin was in ctftnmand, and the vessel carried a crew of forty all told, three stowaways, and eleven passengers.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 147, 22 June 1901, Page 6
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