WRECK OF HIGHLAND HOPE
SPLENDID DISCIPLINE ABOARD.
TRIBUTES PAID PORTUGUESE
(British Official Wireless). - Rec. 5.5 p.m. \ Rugby, Nqv. 20.Reports of the wreck of the motorship Highland Hope on the I’arilhpe Ishinds state that despite the difficulties caused by darkness and, fog perfect order was maintained and the p 74 passengers, including a large proportion of immigrants bound for South America, were placed in the lifeboats and sent, aw with a mininium confusion. High, tributes are paifi to the splendid behaviour of the Portuguese oarsmen who towed the ship’s boats to safety and in other v.avs. Assistance was readily forth.-, comin" from residents in the locality. The” 14,000 ton Highland Hope A ruck a reef at four o’clock in the morning in a dense fog. Over 100 passengers were embarked in six lifeboats in a pitiful plight, mostly half-dressed and some only in night clothes. The Farilhoes are 20 miles from the coast of Portugal and 50 miles north of Lisbon. ■ .
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 November 1930, Page 7
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