A SHIPPING DISASTER.

Thames Star, Volume XX, Issue 4663, 14 July 1888, Page 2

A SHIPPING DISASTER.

Star of Greece Ashore

POUB OF THE CEEW DROWNED

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Adelaide, Yesterday,

The 'ship Star' of Greece, Captain Harrower, bound for Great Britain with a cargo of wheat and two passengers, has gone ashore near Willunga, thirty miles south of this city. The ; weather is very rough, and the ship has broken in two. Four of the .crew of the ship have been drowned, and only one so far has sue* ceeded in reaching the shore.- ' There are still twenty souls aboard the ill-fated vessel in'great peril, for it is momentarily expected that the ship will go to pieces.

„, .Further Particulars- „ .CAPTAIN,AND 11 MEN DROWNED. , , THE INSUEANCES. v Received 14th,' 1.15 p.m." ■ ' .'' Adelaide, This day.

The after part of the ship Star of Greece disappeared early this, morning, and many of tbe "crew, including the cap* tain, we're drowned, several being crushed to; death by the wreckage. Sis men 'jumped, overboard together, but their efforts to reach tbe shore were unsuccessful, , and all perished. The beach is strewn with wreckage, and many of the bodies bava been seen washing about. , The" total number of persons on board was twenty-seven (including two pas* sengers), and of these the first and third officers, four men, and four apprentices only, hare been saved.. All the others \ were ' drowned. The Chief Oth'cer.expresses the opinion Ibat probably all would have been saved had they stock to the remnant of'the" vessel.' ' The South British Iniurance Company hare a line of '£2000 on tbe vessel, which was loaded with wheat.

The names of the drowned are unknown at present. ; ~ " > <