MARINE DISASTER.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 281, 27 November 1915, Page 8

MARINE DISASTER.

'SHIP LOST WITH ALL HANDS

KSoODTIi \rGJ3SEL UN ABLE TO

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[Press Association.] {Received Nor. 27, 9.40 a.m.) ViGTOJUA. (Sritish Columbia) Nor. 26

'fbe Chilian four-masted' full-rigged "■iron .''lip Cfirefmapu has been ■ lost 'with all hands, numbering, 2&. The vessel drove ashore before a terrific rgajo on the \vc.*t coast of Vancouver "Island. * TEo Canadian-Pacific steamer Prin•cess Maequinna, at great risk to hor•Bolf, tried to ro.>ciie the men clinging ta' the wrecked craft. Owing to the :.E»roi3g-sea. running she was unable to ".work, in close enough. One of the sailors from -fclie wreck was washed ;-overboard- ia .eight of the-ilielfsless Ijscr-dw of'the lVuiee^JUiacquinna. ,\s.?i,'-* '«BHqara«MiMaaa ~. , H;'< ~ .