NEW LIGHTSHIP SINKS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13430, 11 July 1914, Page 10

NEW LIGHTSHIP SINKS.

HALIFAX (N;S.), May 23. The >loss o£ the mew lightship, Halifax Ao. 19, with all of the 25 men on board> is indicated ' by" tho discovery of wreckage and , three bodies near Liscomb, 100 miles east 'of her© to-day. The lightship was on her way to this port • from ; Paisley, Scotland , where she ■ was built. . *■ The" lightship, which was due here yesterday, is believed to have struck a rock) while feeling her way through the thick fog that has enshrouded the coast for several days. The wreckage was sighted and the bodies picked up by the steamer Dufferin, which reported that lifebelts ;marked "Halifax No. 19" were strapped about, each of the victims. pM receipt of the news of the wreck, tli© Government marine agency - her© made preparations to send out steamers 4ni search of other, bodies. The •■ lightr ship sailed a few days ago from St. John's, Newfoundland, where she had stopped for coal. The Government steamer iStanley has been ordered to get *m touch .with the Dufferin and take charge of the bodies. v The steamship Stanley was also instructed to cruise around the- vicinity of the wreck m search of survivors, though little, hope was held out here that , any. of; the- crew .of the lightship 'escaped. ' ; The presumption among members of tho Marino Department here is that the lightship struck the Oook ledges dnrng a fog, and was pounded to pieces. It was thought that if any of tho crow escaped, they. managed to reach Liscomb Island. Plans have been made to search the island.