FISHING BOAT SUNK
COLLISION IN THE CHANNEL ALL THE CREW SAVED (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, Nov. 3. The Southern Railway night boat from Boulogne to Folkestone, the Maid of Orleans, with 230 passengers, was in collision in thick fog last night with a French fishing boat just outside Boulogne. The fishing boat was badly holed and sank. The nine men on board were saved by other fishihg boats The Maid of Orleans was going very slowly at the time.
The fog persisted throughout the night, and another Channel steamer, the Maid of Kent, was 10 hours late in reaching Boulogne.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23341, 5 November 1937, Page 9
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