STEAMER WRECKED
Lives Lost on Wild Coast SURVIVORS SCALE CLIFF London, March 18. The steamer Citrine, bound from Glasgow to North Wales was wrecked off the Isle of Man, with a loss of ten lives. The Citrine struck the rocks at Bradda Head during a fog with a crash which shook the ship like a matchbox. She clawed off, badly holed in the port bow, and filled and sank before a boat could be launched. Two survivors battled ashore through the icy breakers clinging to an oar and lifebelt. Almost by a miracle they scaled a 500-Xoot cliff. They remained on the rocks till daybreak, when they aroused the inmates of a farmhouse. A lifeboat from Douglas ascertained the extent of the disaster.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 149, 20 March 1931, Page 9
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123STEAMER WRECKED Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 149, 20 March 1931, Page 9
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