STEAMER AGROUND
800 PASSENGERS TAKEN OFF. SALVAGE NOT PROBABLE. HALIFAX (Nova Scotia), Jan. 13. The steamer Uranium is aground. There was no panic among the passengers. The bow plates of the steamer hare been ripped away. She lies on a rocky ledge ten miles distant and is not likely to he salvaged. Her eight hundred passengers were transhipped to the lifeboats, and landed safely. The crew aro still aboard the steamer. The Uranium is a British steel screw three-masted steamer of 5153 tons, built in 1691 by W. Denny and Bros., Dumbarton, and owned by the Uranium && Co., Ltd.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8329, 15 January 1913, Page 7
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99STEAMER AGROUND New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8329, 15 January 1913, Page 7
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