STEAMER WRECKED
ON WEXFORD COAST (By Eleotrlo Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Keuter's Telegrams.) LONDON, July 13. Tho crew of 19 of the steamer Lisinore are missing. Tile vessel was wrecked on tho Wexford Coast on Thursday cn loute to Liverpool. The first news of the disaster was the washing ashore of a body. It is supposed the vessel ran on a sandbank in a tog and turned turtle.
SURVIVOR’S THRILLING STORY LONDON, July 14. Carey, a survivor from the Lismore, says a list to port was noticed on Friday, but nothing could be done to right the. ship. The captain ordered the lifeboats to be lowered. While this was being done the Lismore over turned. Carey was sucked under and when lie came to the surface he grasped the ship’s hatch floating by, and with empty wooden cases constructed a rude raft in tlie dark. He struggled in the rough sea for four hours until dawn, when he tied himself to the raft, ate a swede to appease his hunger, and thus was washed ashore thirty miles from where the Lismore foundered. Most pathetic scenes were witnessed at Cork Quay, wives and children waiting news of possible survivors.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 15 July 1924, Page 5
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