LINER ON THE ROCKS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20678, 25 September 1930, Page 11

LINER ON THE ROCKS.

PERSONNEL ALL RESCUED. s VESSEL STRIKES IN A FOG. (Received September 21. 5.5 p.m.) British Wireless. RUGBY, Sept. 23. Tlio liner City of Osaka, 6600 tons, «truck a submerged reef early this morning in a dense fog, about 15 miles north of Aberdeen —at one of the most treacherous parts of the Scottish coast. She was hound for;, New York from Newcastle at the time. Wireless messages brought a prompt response from the destroyer Walker, which was engaged in autumn texercises with tho/ fifth flotilla of the Atlantic Fleet and which raced to the assistance of tho disabled vessel. Lifeboats were soon in attendance, but as the City of Osaka was firmly wedged on the rocks, with her bow well down in the water and with rocks all round her, it was unsafe for the lifeboatmen to attempt to rescue the crew. In the meanwhile further distress calls had brought a life-saving corps to the spot. From a cliff 200 ft. high by means of a breeches buoy about 60 Lascars and Japanese members of the crew were brought ashore. The captain and officers of tho liner, With a white member of the crew, remained or* board to conduct pumping operations. Throughout the rescue work complete calm prevailed among the crew. The latest message from the scene states that the vessel developed a sharp list and the captain and officers were taken off in a lifeboat.

The City of Osaka (formerly tho Colorado) belongs to the Ellerman Lines, Ltd., and her port of registry is Liverpool. She was built'in 1923 by Gray and Company, Ltd., at Sunderland. SOUTH DEVON WRECK. BELGIAN SHIP ASHORE. CREW HAULED UP CLIFF. British Wireless, RUGBY, Sept. 23. The Antwerp steamship Ida, 500 tons, went ashore near Prawle Point, South Devon, in a fog late last night. The Plymouth and Torbay lifeboats answered her distress' call, but before they reached her she went on tho rocks, almost directly under a cliff on which stands the coastguard station. Tho first shot of tho rocket apparatus and lino from tho coastguards was successful and the 12 Belgian members of tho crew were safely hauled up the cliff by means of tho breeches buoy. SCHOONER SINKS. STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. ' TEN LIVES REPORTED LOST. VANCOUVER, Sept. 23. A message from North Sydney, Is ova Scotia, states that eight passengers and two meihbers of the crew of a Newfoundland schooner, tho Caranza, which left there for Burin. Newfoundland, were lost on Thursday night when the vessel sank after being split in two by lightning off the eastern coast of Cape Breton. The disaster becamo known to-day when six survivors, who were picked up 75 miles west of St. Pierre Miquelon on Sunday night, arrivod hero in the schooner Vigninette. All thoso drowned were from Newfoundland. They included the master, Captain Joshua Matthews.