WRECK OF THE WINDSOR.
(Peess Association— Goeimobt) FULLER DETAILS r THE VESSEL ON A BEEF PERILS AND HARDSHIPS P!ERTH{-Sunday The rescue expedition to tUc Wind «or, which has been wrecked on the Ab rolhos rocks, has returned to Geraldton The captain Ist officer, apd chief engi neer were drowned, and and the rest saved. / The vessel has broken np The rescue vesesl failed to g«t lines to^the. steamer, which was fast break ing up. Three apprentices, a sea man and 14 Chinese were still on the boat Seeing the vessel would not last much longer, they la^cd them selves to plaaks and t>rc*v tLsmsolve3 into the sea, being 'washed on a reef, ' where rescuers got them safe ashore Captain Walters and the chief officer Mr Jones, were drownsd on the Tues day night after the wrsc\. A boat containing two of the rescuers was blown out out sea whfa putting off to the -wreck, and has not yet been found. A steamer is o.archmg An apprentice states that they were four daye en the ■wreck without water.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 10 February 1908, Page 3
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177WRECK OF THE WINDSOR. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 10 February 1908, Page 3
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