P. AND O. LINER ASHORE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 143670, 14 December 1911, Page 3

P. AND O. LINER ASHORE.

HER POSITION SERIOUS. DUKE AND DUCHESS OF FIFE. SAVED IN A LIFEBOAT. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. LONDON, Dec. 13. The Peninsular and Oriental Compands steamer Delhi is ashore near Cape Spartol. The Duke and Duchess of Fifo and their daughters aro aboard. (Received Dec, 14, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 13. The position of the Delhi is serious. The British warships Weymouth, London, and Duke of Edinburgh, a lifeboat and life-saving apparatus, have been dispatched from Gibraltar. Later the boats of a French cruiser rescued the Delhi’s women and children. (Received Doc. 14, 10.25 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 13. Reuter’s Tangier correspondent states that a lifeboat from tho cruiser Duke of Edinburgh landed the Duke and Duchess of Fife and party from the stranded steamer Delhi. They were drenched to the skin owing to the long row to Spartel signal station. The British Minister met and accompanied them to Tangier. British warship is conveying them to Gibraltar. CONFUSED REPORTS. (Received Dec. 14, 1.15 p.m.) TANGIER, Deo. 13. Confused accounts are coming to hand regarding the wreck of tho Delhi. • It is reported that one of the Princesses was nearly drowned, being, however, held up by a sailor. A launch from the cruiser Briant, while assisting the Royalties, capsized, six sailors being drowned. [The Delhi is a twin-screw steamer of 8,090 tons and 8,900 h.p. She is quite a now ship, being tenth on the company’s list of steamers. The place at which she has been wrecked is on the coast of Morocco, nearly opposite Gibraltar. The P. and O. Company has hitherto been signally , fortunate in avoiding wrecks. 'Hie last serious disaster was the loss of the Aden, which ran ashore off Socotra on June 9, 1897, resulting in the loss of the captain, 13 officers and crow (20 Europeans and 33 natives) and 25 passengers. Fortyfive were saved by the Mayo. The China went ashore off Aden about ten years ago but no lives wore lost.]