LATEST FROM THE WRECK.
CREW BEING LANDED
The latest information received from the wreck shows that the Devon will probably be a total loss. There are 60 men aboard, and these are being landed by a life-line at the rate of about six an hour. The vessel has a thousand tons of general merchandise from Montreal aboard. The sea is still rough.
The Devon is a steel screw steamer of 6059 tons, length 400 ft, breadth 54ft, depth 28.7, and owned by the Federal Steam Navigation Company, under charter to the New Zealand Shipping Company.
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Northern Advocate, 26 August 1913, Page 5
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