FIFESHIRE WRECKED.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 193, 15 August 1911, Page 5

FIFESHIRE WRECKED.

ON THE AFRICAN COAST. TWO BOATS BOSSING. WITH TWENTY-FIVE ABOARD. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 8 a.m.) LONDON, August 14. The steamer Fifoshire ran ashore 20 miles south of Capo Guardafui, the most easterly point in Africa. She filled and sank, and has' become a total lo.=s. Seventy-five of the passengers and crew lauded at Aden. Two boats with 30 souls aboard are missing. The captain was saved. The steamers British Transport and Dalhousie, and the Italian gunboat Volturno, are searching for the missing boats. There are t.vo women aboard r-.e of them. The Fifeshire has been a frequent visi tor to Auckland with general cargoes from London and New York. She was a steel vessel of 5672 gross tons, built at Glasgow in 1808 by the Clydebank Company for the Eldersl'ie S.S. Co., of London. She left Brisbane on June 24 for London and Liverpool; and called at Kcppel Bay, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Albany, leaving the last named port on July il on the voyage Home., which was to have been made via the Suez Canal, but which came to an end near the entrance to the Red Sea.