STRANDED CELTIC.

Grey River Argus, 14 December 1928, Page 5

STRANDED CELTIC.

Little Hope of Refloating. ROCK THROUGH HULL. 25 FEET OF WATER LN ENGINEROOM. (Received December 13, at 8 p.m.) LONDON, December 12. Salvage expel ts express little hope of refloating the Celtic. They say if 'h« had missed the rocks by only her own width, she wuuld Have been unseated, but she -'truck under the engineroom, and there is a rock t hrough her like a pinnacle. There is now twenty-five feet of water in

the engineroom ,and the stokehold is flooded. "The cargo probab’y will be thrown overboard.

lonnly figure, in his cabin, is the Commander, who has t>een calling •' Queenstown for thirty years without an accident.