SINKING OF SHIP
U.S. FEDERAL INQUIRY SEAMANSHIP PRAISED BOSTON". Sept. 10. The spectacular rescue of 15D passengers niirl 53 (if n new whose excursion boat sank into fog-shrouded l Boston harbour brought praise for cool seamanship to-day—and at t!ie same time an investigation by the federal steamboat inspection service. The steamer Romance, returning from a. trip to Cape Cod, sunk 20 minutes after a collision with Ihe Manhattanhound liner New York, which lore a hole in her, port side last night. In those 20 minutes was enacted one of the most- stirring dramas of this historic haibour. A bridge of ladders was thrown from the liner New York to the Romance. Across it wont a majority of tho excursion boat's passengers. Others wove saved by five lifeboats lowered by the Now York. While tho passengers and crew of tho Romance scrambled to safety the New York kept her prow jammed into the side of the other craft. A moment, after Captain Adelberl ('. Wickens left the Romance the ship plunged under the .waves bow ■first, her whistle moaning. Five persons were takem to hospitals, A few others reported minor injuries.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19141, 9 October 1936, Page 3
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189SINKING OF SHIP Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19141, 9 October 1936, Page 3
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