STEAMER SINKS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 32, 9 February 1929, Page 9

STEAMER SINKS

CAPSIZE OFF SYDNEY

SIX OF CREW MISSING

UNAVAILING SEARCH

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SYDNEY, This Day

A small collier, ■ the. Annie M. Miller, foundered about 7.45 to-night, six miles south-south-east of Sydney Heads. The pilot steamer, under Captain Cook picked up Eix of the crew, who were being tossed in an angry sea in th.lifeboat. Six others are missing. The search is being continued to-night. The South Heads lighthouse-koeper sighted the collier half-an-hour before the foundering. Ho suddenly, missed Her. Ho then saw rockets and informed the pilot vessel. According to survivors' stones, the collier capsized and sank within eight minutes. One man was in nis bunk when he was thrown out on to the deck. He then plunged into the water. lie was later picked up by tho boat. The six men in the boat were almost exhausted when rescued by the pilot steamer. They told graphic stories of their experiences. The Captain Cook and two other steamors searched for the six missing men until an early hour, unavailingly. It ia now thought that some of those missing were trapped in their bunks and drowned before they could reach the deck. The names of the men believed to be drowned are: Captain Pilling, John Wilson, E. Rowera* Andrew Anderson, H. Andrews, and P. Brennan.