Schooner Burns and Sinks
STEAMER RESCUES ALL ABOARD IN NICK OF TIME. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph —Copyright. AMSTERDAM, August 20. A wireless message from the Dutch steamer Hercules tells a thrilling story of the rescue of -16 men, being the crew and passengers of the four-masted American schooner Augusta G. Hilton. The schooner, when 600 miles southwest of the Azores, caught fire. The Hercules was just in time to rescue all aboard before the schooner burned to tho water’s edge and sank.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7241, 22 August 1933, Page 7
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83Schooner Burns and Sinks Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7241, 22 August 1933, Page 7
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