TIMELY RESCUE
STEAMER SPRINGS A LEAK
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/Received 25th October, 10.30 a.m;) ~£•■ MELBOURNE., This Day. The wooden steamer Hillmead sprang a leak in Bass Strait. The holds,were flooded and the crew had'lost hope, : when a pilot steamer came to'the jescars with the tug Eagle, and towed-the Hill- -h. mead into Port Phillip Bay. The,stea T; mer Iron Baron was the first- to notice- ~ the Hillmead's plight, and sent, a radio - to the lighthouse-keeper. ■~r -: }
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 25 October 1928, Page 5
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79TIMELY RESCUE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 25 October 1928, Page 5
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