DISASTERS AT SEA.
ft BRITISH SCHOONER LOST. By TclecraDb-Press Asßociatloj-OeojTicht London, February 9. The British schooner llibernia, 329 tons, whilst voyaging from Nova Scotia to Barbadoes with a crew of seven, was wrecked in mid-Atlantic on December 29. The crew have arrived at Liverpool. Tho schooner was partly submerged for twenty-nine days. The water-casks and provisions were washed overboard, and tho men ate tinned salmon and chewed tea leaves to quench their thirst. They were foodlcss for the last fourteen days, when a liner rescued them. DRIFTED TO SEA. New York, February 9. The schooner Olympia, with a seaman named Gonzales aboard, broke from her moorings at. San Diego during a gale and drifted (o sea. The schooner was wrecked, and Gonzales is missing.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1361, 12 February 1912, Page 7
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