DASHED TO PIECES.
SAILING VESSEL WRECKED. WITHIN SIGHT OF LAND. ■ HEARTRENDING SCENES. L BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT T U . f \, . PARIS, Dec. 3 Finnish four-masted ship Port Caledonia was dashed to nieces on ."he rocks near La Rochelle with the loss 25, I hands > numbeeng thirty seven. Lne helm was broken in the heavy gale A+r ship was .it the r.mrey of rj e Atlantic breakers. -sight of Hundreds -of wu‘.\Ws lifeboats, manned by picked yolujiattempted to rescue the crew, tihey wero unable even to throw a repo to the wreck. ]<-?he.w°uld-be rescuers h;.d to \.at c b the-doomed crew take to the- ngg-no, from which .they Were washed off one fiv one. Finally the Port Caiebn/a str.k.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 5 December 1924, Page 5
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