Gale halts search
NZPA-Reuter Victoria, (British Columbia) Deteriorating weather has forced suspension of a search for possible survivors from a Panamanian-registered ore carrier which overturned off British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands, The 15,528-tonne Lee Wang Zin capsized during a storm after leaving Prince Rupert British Columbia, bound foi Japan with a load of ore.
I Lieutenant Command er! Dick Papper said the ore car-1 rier had a crew of about 30.1 He said a liferaft from the: ship was spotted by a United j a! States Coast Guard aircraft e but there was no sign of life. | ft A full gale was blowing in! n the area and a storm warning' had been issued, he said. g The search started after a ti rescue co-ordination centre in t, Victoria received a distress >r signal at 9.25 a.m. Searchers found the vessel four hours
! later, overturned 80km west of Prince Rupert. , Meanwhile, six crewmen of .the Greek cargo vessel Soula jG are feared to have ! drowned when the ship sunk jin heavy seas off the east : coast of Greece, a spokesman j for the Greek Merchant Marine Ministry has said. One member of the crew j of seven was picked up by a j rescue helicopter, the Minis- > try spokesman said.
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Press, 27 December 1979, Page 6
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