MISHAP DURING FOG.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18833, 23 March 1931, Page 9

MISHAP DURING FOG.

.Vessel Strikes Rock. PASSENGERS LAND SAFELY. United Press Association—By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright (Received March 22, 11.15 p.m.) LONDON, March 22. Three hundred passengers, including twenty mothers with babies in arms, had a thrilling experience when the 16,000-tonner Monti are, which was proceeding to Greenock from Newfoundland, struck a rock off Barren Island, Little Cumbrae, in the Firth of Forth, during a fog. , The captain ordered the lifeboats to be launched, and passengers with lifebelts on, rushed to their stations. The men obeyed an order for the womenand children to be taken first. All were lowered safely, Including a bedridden woman, who was paralysed in both legs, and a man on crutches. The passengers w r ere landed on a boulderstrewn shore, where they remained for two hours until they reembarked in the lifeboats and were transferred to tugs from Greenock. They were taken to Largs, where then entrained for Glasgow. The Montlare is rockbound at an angle of forty-five degrees. She is a striking spectacle, lighted fi*>m stem to stern, as a warning to other passenger vessels.