STEAMER BREAKS UP WHEN STRIKES ROCK

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 15, 8 October 1929, Page 5

STEAMER BREAKS UP WHEN STRIKES ROCK

IMPACT THROWS CAPTAIN OVERBOARD FORTY DROWNED. SURVIVORS’ TERRIBLE EXPERT ENCES. (Received 12.50 p.m.) OSLO, October 1 7. 1 Dunns' n furious storm between 6th. and 7th, the coastal steamer, Haakon, The Seventh, , travelling' at twelve kn,ots, was speedily sunk off Floroe, where she crashed at half tidte into a rock so violently as to throw Into the sea Captain (Michael Stoem, who was alongside the pilot on the bridge. The captain struggled on to the rock from whence he was rescued. About forty passengers and the crew were drowned,, and sixty<nine were saved. The survivors related that it was a very dark night, and many were in bed. The electric light failed. Numbers o night clad passengers rushed to the deck to find the steamer turning turtle. JThere was no panfc despite thq fact that soon the bow was the only part of the vessel above water. This was crowded with the few passengers who had not thrown themselves into the waves. Some reached the shore scrambling with torn hands and feet along the adjacent reef, — Australian Press Assn., United service.