STEAMER SAVED.
CREW HAD LOST HOPE. (miTBD PBEBS ISSOCIiTIOK—BT EMCTBIO TELEGBAPH—COPYBIGHT.) V MELBOURNE, October 25. , The wooden steamer Hillmead© sprang a leak in Bass Strait. Her holds were flooded, and the crew had lost hope when the pilot steamer came to the rescue with the tug Eagle and towed the Hillmeade into Port Phillip Bays The Iron Baron, a steamer, was the first to notice the Hillmeade's plight, and sent a radio to the lighthouse-' keeper.—Australian Press Association.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19451, 26 October 1928, Page 12
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