STEAMER WRECKED.
LOSS OF A PORTUGUESE LINER. BRITISH CRUISER TO THE RESCUE. CREW SAVED. By Telegraph.-Press Association.— Copyright!. (Received April 20, 9 a.m.) CAPETOWN, 19th April. The Portuguese steamer Lusitania, which was insured in London for £90,000, was wrecked at Cape Point during a mist. The cruiser Forte and v tug took of! the passengers and crew, numbering. , ! 800. The Lusitania's sister ship, the-Lis-bos, was wrecked on 24tb October last. [The Lusitania, a steel • vessel of 5557 tons gros3, was built in 1906 by Sir Raylton Dixoii and Co., Ltd., Miadlesbro'. The Lisboa, 7700 tons, was lost near Paternoster Point, on the West Coast of Gape Colony, seven persons being drowned.]
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 92, 20 April 1911, Page 7
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