TRAWLER WRECKED OFF ICELAND
Fourteen Lives Lost CREWS OF OTHER VESSELS UNABLE TO HELP By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received February 11, 8.30 p.m.) London, February 10. The Grimsby trawler Laganes was wrecked on a reef off the Iceland coast at the height of a terrific Arctic gale. Fourteen lives were lost, making 44 lost in trawler wrecks in 1935, of whom 32 have been from Grimsby. Other trawlers saw members of rhe crew of the Laganes drop off the rigging one by one and drown while they were unable to render help.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 118, 12 February 1935, Page 9
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91TRAWLER WRECKED OFF ICELAND Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 118, 12 February 1935, Page 9
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