NAGASAKI FERRY TRAGEDY
WORKMEN’S BOAT OVERLOADED. TWO HUNDRED DROWN IN CAPSIZE. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright, , Tokio, Jan. 28. A ferry boat, overcrowded with 250 workmen from the Mitsubishi iron works, instead of a limit of 140 passengers, capsized in Nagasaki harbour. Only 50 were saved. Accounts vary regarding the death roll in the tragedy, which occurred in the rush of homeward-bound men to. disembark, causing the craft to overturn. Women victims were trapped in the cabin in which they had sheltered from the cold.
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 January 1934, Page 7
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