ISLE OF MAN WRECK.
LOSS OF TEN LIVES.
TWO MEN REACH SHORE.
LONDON, March 18. The steamer Citrine, bound from Glasgow to North Wales, was wrecked on the Isle of Man. Ten lives wore lost. The Citrine struck the rocks off Bradda Head during a fog". The crash shook the ship as if she had been a match-box. The vessel was badly holed in the port bow and filled and sank before a boat could be launched. Two survivors battled ashore through the icy breakers clinging to an oar and a lifebelt. They miraculously scaled a cliff 500 ft. high and remained on the rock? untli daybreak, when they aroused, the inmates of a farmhouse. ■ A lifeboat from Douglas ascertained the extent of the disaster.
The Citrine was a vessel of 582 tons, built in 1921 at Aberdeen, and owned by VV. Robertson, of Glasgow.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20827, 20 March 1931, Page 11
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