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150 IN SINKING SHIP. VANCOUVER. October 231 Wireless scored another triumph when the 150 passengers of the steamer San Gil were rescued by the steamer San Bias before tile former vessel foundered. “Help, quick!’’ _ were the last words received from the wireless operator of the San Uu. winch was off the coast of Jamaica while bound for Havana, Previous messages had said that the weather was heavy, that the ship was pounding to pieces, and that the passengers were making ready to take to the boats. The Son Gil. which was owned by the Unifruit S.S. Co., of Boston, and engaged in the West Indies fruit trade, was a mocH*tn steamer of 3628 tone, built at Belfast; in 1920. She was fitted with submarine signalling apparatus and refrigerating space, me San Bias, owned by the same company, is a sister ship, built at the sam*' time.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19010, 5 November 1923, Page 9
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