BRITISH VESSEL WRECKED NEAR RIO DE JANEIRO
(Recd. 2 p.m.) RIO DE JANEIRO, April 26. En route to Britain from Argentina on her maiden voyage, the British 17(000-ton liner Magdalena ran aground on a rock 15 miles south of Rio yesterday and broke in two- today after being refloated. The 358 passengers were taken off yesterday without casualty. The two halves of the liner were partly submerged today and two Brazilian destroyers rushed up and threw lines. aboard for an attempt to tow the halves to. safety. The Magdalena is owned by Royal Mail ’ Lines., Late today the tugs succeeded in beaching the stern section of the Magdalena. It is hoped to salvage the bow section, which is still afloat, although partly submerged. All the 236 crew have been taken ashore.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GEST19490427.2.46
Bibliographic details
Greymouth Evening Star, 27 April 1949, Page 5
Word Count
131BRITISH VESSEL WRECKED NEAR RIO DE JANEIRO Greymouth Evening Star, 27 April 1949, Page 5
Using This Item
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Greymouth Evening Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in