CHANNEL STEAMER AGROUND.
PASSENGERS TAKEN OFF. FOG DELAYS MAIL BOATS. (BRITISH OmciAL WIBELESB.) (Received August Bth, 5.5 p.m.) BtJGBY, August 7. Over 300 holiday-makers bound from Weymouth to Jersey last night were safely taken off the Great Western Railway steamer St. Patrick, which grounded in a fog on the rocks off Luacorbierc Point, Jersey. The St. Patrick's wireless call was quickly answered by a railway steamer and< tugs from St. Helier, and the passengers were transferred to them. Most were 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. Julian, was standing by this morning preparatory to towing her to St. Aubyn's Bay, where she will bo bfeaehed. Six Channel mail-boats this morning anchored in the fog off the Channel Islands.
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20620, 9 August 1932, Page 9
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