DEATHS AT SEA
The Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company’s R.M.S. lonic reached Wellington' from Southampton yesterday morning with her flag flying at halfmast. Two deaths occurred on the voyage. A day after clearing the Panama Canal, a third-class passenger, Mrs. E. Brown, who had been suffering from sea-sickness and esthemia, passed sud-f denly away in a deck chair at C. 20 a.m. on October 26. The deceased, who was 55 years of age, was accompanied on the voyage by her husband and a son and daughter. The burial took place at sea at noon on the same day. Archdeacon Julius conducted the service, which was attended by a representative of each section of the crew. The second fatality on the voyage occurred shortly before the liner arrived at Wellington \t 8.45 on Tuesday night, a sailor, I). McDonald, aged 53, dropped dead. He leaves a wife and four children in England.
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 47, 19 November 1925, Page 8
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