SHIPPING DISASTERS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 90, 18 April 1914, Page 5

SHIPPING DISASTERS.

STEAMER. ON A REEF,

CREW SAVED BY ROCKET LINE

. [Press Association.] ■ (Received April 18, 0.30 a.m.) v NEWCASTLE, April 17. The steamer Wallarah, of 633 tans, thfe property of the Wallarah Coal Comp any j drifted on a reef in a heavy gale at Catherine Hill Bay and became a total wreck. The crew of seventeen were rescued with difficultly by moans of a rocket line. The vessel was insured for £8000.