LINER WRECKED.
SEVEN PERSONS DROWNED. TWENTY-FOUR MISSING. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyrifht. Received April 29, 5.5 p.m. Capetown, April 2! Only one of the boats from wrecked liner Mossamedes, contain two British officers, is now missing. 258 passengers and crew aboard were saved. Seven are known to have been drowned through the tackle on a boat giving way while the boat was being launched. Twenty-four others are reported missing.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. In response to an S.O.S. call from the Portuguese liner Mossamedes, homeward bound, but eshore at Cape Frio, the steamer Port Victor proceeded to the scene and found the Mossamedes deserted, the boats gone, and no sign of the crew or passengers.
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 April 1923, Page 4
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