TRAGIC WRECK.
TEN LIVES LOST. Steamer on Rocks off Isle of Man. SURVIVORS' NIGHT ESCAPE. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 12 Noon.) LONDON, March IS. The steamer Citrine, bound, from Glasgow to North Wales, was wrecked 011 the Isle of Man. Ten lives were lost. The Citrine struck tlie rocks off.Bradda Head during a fog, the crash shaking the vessel like a matchbox; The ship was badly holed in the port bow. She tilled and sank before a boat could be launched. Two survivors battled ashore through the icy breakers, clinging to an oar and a lifebelt.' They miraculously scaled a 500 ft cliff and then remained 011 the rocks till daybreak, when they aroused the inmates of a nearby rarm'nouse. A lifeboat from Douglas ascertained the extent of the disaster.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 66, 19 March 1931, Page 7
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