STRIKES A ROCK
16,000 TONNER ASHORE. ALL ABOARD SAVED. (United Pres., Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON. Alan-li 22. Three hundred passengers, including twenty mothers with babies in their arms, bad a thrilling experience when the sixteen thousand tenner Mont Clare to Greenock from Newfoundland, struck a rock off u barren island, Little ('umbrae. Firth -of Forth, during a log. Tlie captain ordered the lifeboats to be launched and the passengers with lifebelts 011 were rushed to their stations. The men obeyed orders for women and children first and all were lowered safely, including a bedridden woman, paralysed in both legs and a man on crutches. They landed on a boulder-strewn shore, where they waited for two hours, until they wore re-embarked in the lifeboats and were transferred to tugs from Greenock, They were taken to Largs find entrained for Glasgow. Tho Afoul. Clave is rock bound, at an angle of forty-five degrees and is a striking spectacle, lighted stem to stern as a warning t*> passenger vessels
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 March 1931, Page 5
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