COLLISION IN FOG
MISHAP IN IRISH SEA PRIEST TRAPPED IN CABIN LONDON, July 22. Four ships stood by and then escorted the motor-ship Munster (4565 tons) to Liverpool after she had collided with the American steamer West Cohas (5647 tons) during heavy fog in the Irish Sea, off the Skerries, 50 miles from Liverpool. The Munster was bound from Liverpool to Dublin with 200 passengers, and these were afterward landed at Liverpool. A Franciscan priest from Galway was the only casualty: he suffered head injuries when he was trapped in his cabin after the impact The West Cohas remained for an hour with her stem rammed in the gap in the Munster’s side to prevent the inrush of water.
Four other ships stood by, and the Munster’s lifeboats were preDared and the passengers given lifebelts. Then the West Cohas milled away from the Munster, which however, was able to proceed to Liverpool, escorted by the ether ships.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19700, 4 August 1938, Page 7
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