MISHAP TO TRAWLER
FROM HULL TO LYTTELTON
COLLISION AT LAS PALMAS
PERTH, 18th December. The trawler South Sea has arrived from Hull en route to Lyttelton.
The chief engineer, Mr. Morris, relates that when leaving Las Palmas after bunkering the , trawler collided with, a 10,000-ton vessel, the Stonepool, engaged'in the South African trade. The trawler's bows were stove in to the waterline. ' Captain Dowell transferred his wife to the liner, which also was so badly damaged that she had to be beached, and after a desperate struggle, her foredeck being awash, the trawler reached land nine miles distant. - Mrs. Dowell says that she can claim to have been in two -wrecks in one day. The South Sea, after bunkering, will leave Fremantle for Lyttelton direct.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 147, 19 December 1932, Page 9
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125MISHAP TO TRAWLER Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 147, 19 December 1932, Page 9
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