LOSS OF A STEAMER. STRUCK ON A SHOAL.
THE CREW. A VERY TRYING TIME. By Telegraph.— Presi Association.— Copyright. (Received May 23, 5.50 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. News has been received that the steamer Kirkfield, 3602 tons gross, from Christmas Island to Kobe, Japan, struck a shoal in the Palawan Passage, Malay Archipelago. The crew strove for seven days to keep the vessel afloat, but she sank. The crew reached Balabac (south-west of Palawan) in boats, after a trying journey of thirty-one hours. [The Kirkfield was a steel screw steamer, built in 1896 by Bartram and Sons, Sunderland, and was owned by the Kirkfield Steamship Company, Ltd. (J. R Cuthbertson and Co). Her dimensions were : Length, 344 ft; breadth, 45ft; depth, 18ft 2in.]
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 119, 23 May 1910, Page 7
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