SEARCH FOR SURVIVORS
RESCUE VESSEL FOUNDERS
AEItOPLAN.fi'SENT
t'nltod Press Associalion—Ky Electric Tulograpli—Copyright. • (Received -Ist March, 2 p.m.) ST. JOHN'S, 20th March. The auxiliary sealing schooner Si.i: William sank fifteen miles north-east o£ Horse Island on Friday. Tho crew of twenty-eight, reached the steamer Eagle safely.Tho vessel was apparently lost in searching for the -Viking survivors. Five miles away the rescue ship Sagona' With the Viking survivors taken from Horso Island aboard is prepared to leave for St. John's. Amid heavy gales ships have searched every foot of ice for twenty-two miles beyond the Viking 'disaster without a trace of further victims. ...The captains have advised against aerial search. The Viking missing arc now placed a'f 28, ana the survivors'l27.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 68, 21 March 1931, Page 11
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119SEARCH FOR SURVIVORS Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 68, 21 March 1931, Page 11
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