STEAMER HITS MINE
OFF THE SPANISH COAST
(Received February 26, 1.10 p.m.)
MARSEILLES, February 25.
The Landoyery Castle (10.609 tons), when proceeding to Marseilles from Gibraltar with 300 passengers, struck a mine off Cape Cerbere, where the Franco-Spanish frontier joins the coast, resulting in an explosion forward which heavily listed the vessel and threatened to flood the number 1 and number 2 holds. The vessel hove to outside Port Vendres, which it reached under its own steam. Launches are standing by to take off tne passengers if necessary. ' ■ • ■ . ■
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 48, 26 February 1937, Page 9
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