COLLISION IN CHANNEL
FISHING BOAT SUNK RESCUE OF FRENCH CREW - British Wireless RUGBY, Nor. 3 The Southern Railway night boat from Boulogne to Folkestone, the Maid of Orleans, with 230 passengers, was in a collision in thick fog last night with a French fishing boat just outside Boulogne. The fishing boat was badly holed and sank. Nine men on board were saved by other fishing bo'ats. The Maid of Orleans was going very slowly at the time.
Fog persisted throughout the night and another 'Channel steamer, the Maid of Kent, was 10 hours late in reaching Boulogne.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22878, 5 November 1937, Page 11
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