FOG CAUSES WRECK.
TEN LIVES LOST. United Press Association—By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright LONDON. March 18. The steamer Citrine, bound from Glasgow to North Wales, was wrecked on the Isle of Man. Ten lives were lost. The Citrine struck the rocks off Bradda Head during a fog, the crash shaking the ship like a match box. The vessel was badly holed in the port bow, filled and sank before a boat could be launched. Two survivors battled ashore through the icy breakers, clinging to an oar and lifebelt. They miraculously scaled a 500 feet cliff, and remained on the rocks till daybreak, when they aroused the inmates of a farmhouse. A life-boat from Douglas ascertained the extent of the disaster.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18831, 20 March 1931, Page 9
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118FOG CAUSES WRECK. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18831, 20 March 1931, Page 9
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