TOTAL LOSS LIKELY
(Eocoived 2nd. April, 3 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The Malabar slid on the rocks oa the northern side of Long Bay while the passengers were preparing for breakfast. She now lies held, fast with a hole in her stem. She struck at high water, and by 11 o'clock had listed bo badly that the whole starboard side was submerged. The- ship appeared likely to slip off the reef and founder any moment. A cyclone is reported to be sweeping down the coast and this is expected to complete tha Malabar's destruction. There was no panic when the accident happened, but as the ship's position appeared serious, twenty-seven passengers and a number of the crew landed in lifeboats within an hour. A" trawler later, attempted to pull ■ tha Malabar off, but the hawsers snapped. The Malabar, 4512 tons, was built in. 1925 by Barclay, Curie and Co., of Glasgow, and enginod by Kincaid and Co. She is a motor vessel. . . ■ .
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 78, 2 April 1931, Page 10
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162TOTAL LOSS LIKELY Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 78, 2 April 1931, Page 10
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