GERMAN TOURIST LINER

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 146, 22 June 1934, Page 9

GERMAN TOURIST LINER

PASSENGERS W PANIC

VESSEL STRIKES ROCKS

FEARED LOSS OF LIFE

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OSLO, June 21.; The German tourist liner Dresden, which struck rocks off Bokn Island at the mouth of Bokn Fiord and was put ashore on Karmoe Island, badlyholed and leaking, with a heavy list, gradually filled and sank this morning, and will he, it is feared, a total loss. The passengers and crew left the ship in boats, but it is feared that two lives were lost, while several persons were injured in the panic which ensued when the vessel struck.

The Dresden struck while- the passengers were having dinner and heeled over violently. Tables wereoverturned and a wild panic ensued. The liner was put ashore as soon as the danger of sinking was realised. ~'.•'...

In the meantime the passengers started jumping overboard. All who jumped were saved- The vessel carried 980 passengers and a crew of: 260. She was beached near Karmoe.

The Norwegian vessel Kong Haakoa took the greater part of the passengers and the remainder landed on the island with little difficulty and were motored to farms. The captain wirelessed that he was tho last to leave the ship, which, was in, a sinking: condition. The cruise was arranged for German workers as the principal part of a Government scheme of holidays for workers. All the .passengers were Germaa workers from the Saar. ; The warship Sodney-was among the ships that responded to the SOS. :