FOG IN CHANNEL.
Vessel Piled on Rocks Off
Jersey.
300 PASSENGERS RESCUED.
(British Official "Wireless.) ' RUGBY, August 8. More than 300 holiday-makere, bound from Weymouth to Jersey on Friday, were safely taken off the Great Western Railway steamer St. Patrick, which went aground in a fog on the rocks off La Corbiere Point, Jersey.
The St. Patrick's wireless call was quickly answered by another railway steamer and tugs from St. Helier. The passengers were transferred and most of them landed at that port at midnight.
The passengers behaved calmly and showed no alarm. The St. Patrick, which had one stokehold flooded,
remained upright. Her sister ship St. | Julien was standing by yesterday morn- ' ing preparatory to towing her to St. Aubyns Bay, where she will be beached. Six Channel mail boats yesterday morning were anchored in the fog off the Channel Islands. ( I
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 187, 9 August 1932, Page 7
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