SHIPPING DISASTER
FINNISH STEAMER WRECKED
LONDON, October 24.
Reuter reports that the Finnish steamer Vestknsten has been wrecked at Vasa, Finland, and 40 persons were drowned. One of the Vestkusten’s crew escaped. The vessel left Vasa on Wednesday in a heavy gale and ran on a reef. She sank in a few minutes. The crew launched a boat, but it foundered, and the occupants were drowned. The survivor and a number of firemen clung to the rigging. The firemen succumbed to exposure. HELSINGFORS, October 25. The survivor relates that only one boat containing a dozen women and children was safely, launched, but it was afterwards found empty. He clung to the masthead for 13 hours and a-half, and as it was submerged he was battling with death. Eight lifeless bodies with lifebelts on were found near the wreck.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3111, 29 October 1913, Page 25
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138SHIPPING DISASTER Otago Witness, Issue 3111, 29 October 1913, Page 25
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