WEATHER CLEAR
STJRYIYORS' STORY
SHIP SANK IN FOUR MINUTES
(Received 2nd July, 1 p.m.)
■ . LONDON, Ist July. Survivors of the Melbourne agree that the weather was clear when the collision occurred. Some were in the water an hour before they were rescued.
Those drowned were all Finns. The only Englishman aboard, S. Theobald, was saved. He says that after sighting the Fastnet Light at 11 o'clock at night he heard a siren blowing. The crew were called on deck, as a collision was imminent, but were not all able to respond in time.' Immediately afterward there was a terrific crash on the forepart of the ship, which dived nose-first in four minutes. Apparently the stem was cut off.
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Evening Post, Issue 2, 2 July 1932, Page 11
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