FRENCH VESSEL SUNK.
ALL PASSENGERS SAVED
THREE RACEHORSES DROWNED
LONDON, Oct. 3. Th© French mail steamer Attala, bound from St. Malo, on the English Channel, to Jersey, struck a- rock at Point la Roque, on the south-east of Jersey, and foundered. There were no casualties. The lefeboats arrived at Gorey, a village in the Igland of Jersey, after 11 hours, bringing the exhausted passengers and crew. Tugs found the masts and funnel of the Attala above the water. Three racehorses were floating, dead, in their boxes.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 17 October 1925, Page 11
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