LOST IN FOG.
BIG LINER AGROUND. Empress Of Canada Strikes On Vancouver Island. 96 PASSENGERS INJURED. (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) .... ; .VANCOUVER, October 14. The.liner Empress of Canada. went ashore' in a heavy fog in the Strait of Juan de Fuea, Vancouver Island. All her passengers have been disembarked. . - The vessel was returning from England where she had undergone an extensive overhaul. Of the passengers and crew 96 were injured when the steamer struck. The Empress of Canada is the largest liner plying on the Pacific coast. She is piled up in sight of the Empress Hotel at Victoria. The vessel's two captains and a pilot were on the bridge. Yet the huge liner evidently lost her way in J the fog, for she was. miles outside her-proper course. Her bows are within 50ft of a. residence on the beach. Several tugs were used in an attempt, to pull the vessel off last night, but they were not successful. The weather is calm, but a south-easterly wind would spell disaster. . . •
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 244, 15 October 1929, Page 7
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