SHIPPING CASUALTIES.
STEAMER FIFESHIRE ASHORE.
TWO BOATS MISSING. United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. (Received August 15, 10 a.m.) LONDON, August 14
It is reported from Aden that the steamer Fifeshir© is ashore twenty miles south of Cape Quarda-fni, and leaking badly. Seventy-five of her passengers and crew wero landed at Aden, but two boats with thirty souls on board are missing. A British transport is searching.
A later message says that the Fifeshire has been abandoned and is now under water. The captain was savedThe steamer Dalhousie and the Italian gunboat Volturno are searching for the two boatloads who are missing. Among them are two ladies.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 10232, 15 August 1911, Page 2
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