UNLUCKY MONTROSE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 177, 28 July 1928, Page 9

UNLUCKY MONTROSE.

C.P.R. Liner Collides In River St. Lawrence. BADLY DAMAGED. (Australian and Is'.Z. Press Association.) (Received 10 a.ai.) MONTREAL, July 27. With lier stem pierced, with twisted and buckled plates on her port bow, and her port bow anchor missing, the C.P.R. liner Montrose (16,4t)2 tons) docked with over 1000 passengers after a collision with the Rose Castle, a large collier, in the St. Lawrence River. The passengers were shocked into wakefulness, but there was no panic. The Rose Castle was beached. While steaming from Canada to London on April 15 last, the Montrose collided with an iceberg in a dense fog, 800 miles from the Canadian coa#t. It was due only to the captain's prompt action that the vessel was able to reach London with her bows badly buckled, and the forefront of her main deck smashed to matchwood. The conditions of the disaster were similar to those in which the Titanic met her fate in 1912. The captain had two alternatives, either to go between the two parts of the iceberg and risk the ship's sides being ripped open, or of steering direct for one of the bergs. By choosing the latter course it was believed that the captain averted the tragic ending which the Titanic met. The Montrose was built at Fairfield, Glasgow, in 1922. The Rose Castle is a steel vessel of 7546 tons, belonging to the Dominion Shipping Company, and built at Sunderland in. 1915.