URANIUM WRECKED
STRIKES ROCKY LEDGE. ON NOVA SCOTIA COAST. PASSENGERS SAVED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright). HALIFAX (Nova Scotia), Jan. 13. Tlie Uranium is aground. Her bow plates were ripped by the vessel striking a rocky ledge 10 miles distant from here. It Is unlikely that the vessel will be salvaged. Her 800 passengers were transhipped to lifeboats without any sign of panic, and were landed safely. The crew are still aboard. [The Uranium Is a steel steamer of 5183 tons register, belonging to the Uranium Shipping Company, London. She is fitted with a wireless Installation, and has twice been renamed, being first known as the Avoca, and then as the Atalanta. Lloyd’s register gives her master as Captain H. W. Harding.j
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Southland Times, Issue 17244, 15 January 1913, Page 5
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