STEAMER SINKS
WRECK OFF SOUTH AFRICA
ALL" ABOARD RESCUED
(Received April 6, 10 a.m.) CAPE TOWN, April 5. The steamer Halerlc, bound from the Tyne to Australia to load wheat, sank off Paternoster Point, twenty ~ miles .north of Saldahna. She struck a reef yesterday afternoon. She extricated herself, but the forward holds' filled' with water and the bulkhead yielded. At ten in the morning the crew scrambled into the lifeboats and were rescued by a Cape Town tug which responded to last night's wireless calls.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 81, 6 April 1933, Page 11
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