ASHORE IN FOG

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 69, 23 March 1931, Page 9

ASHORE IN FOG

CANADIAN LINER

STRIKES SCOTTISH ISLAND

PASSENGERS LANDED

United Tress Association—By Electric Telegraph— Copyright. , LONDON, 22nd March.

Three hundred passengers, including twenty mothers with babies in arms, had a thrilling experience when the Canadian 16,000-ton liner Montelare, ou a voyage to Greenoek from Newfoundland, struck a rock off the barren island of Little Cumbrae in the Firth of Clyde during a fog. The captain ordeied the lifeboats to be launched, and the passengers, with lifebelts on, were rushed to their stations. The men obeyed the order, ""Women and children first," and all were lowered safely, including a bedridden woman paralysed in both legs and a man. on crutches. They were landed on a boulderstrewn shore, where they waited for two hours until re-embarked in the lifeboats and transferred to tugs from Greenock, taken to Largs, and sent by -train to Glasgow.. The Montclare is fast on the rocks, at an angle of 45 degrees. The ship presents a striking spectacle, lighted from stem to stern as a warning to passenger vessels. The islands of Little Cumbrae and Great Cumbrae stand directly in the middle of the narrows of the Firth of Clyde between the Isle of Bute and the Ayr.coast.