LARGE STEAMER WRECKED
MISHAP OFF SCOTTISH COAST
ALL ABOARD TAKEN TO SAFETY
LONDON, March 22.
Throe hundred passengers, including 20 mothers with babies in arms, had a thrilling experience when the 1(1,000tonner, M outdare, en route to Greenock from Newfoundland, struck a rock off Barren Island, Little Cumbrae, Firth of Forth, during a fog. The captain ordered lifeboats to be launched, the passengers, with lifebelts on, rushed to their stations. The men obeyed the order of “Women and children first,” but all were lowered safely, including a bedridden woman paralysed in both legs and a man on crutches. They landed on a boulderstrewn shore, where they stayed two hours until they re-em(tailed on the lifeboats and were transferred to tugs from Greenock and taken to Largs, where they entrained to Glasgow.
The .Montelare is rock-bound and at an angle of do degrees Is a striking spectacle lighted from stem to stern as a warning to passenger vessels.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 88, 23 March 1931, Page 6
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