BRIGANTINE SUNK.
TEN LIVES LOST. By Telegraph—-Press Association— Copyright Australian and N.Z. Gable Association. MANILA. April 30. The British brigantine Amy Turner, from Australia, with a consignment of coal to Manila, was lost at sea near Guam on March 27. Charles West and three other British survivors reached Ilinatuan, on the East Coast of Mindango, in a ship's boat, after twenty-four days’ privation. The townsfolk proKdded them with food and clothing and arranged for their passage to Cebu. Ten lives are reported to have been lost. The Amy Turner was a three-masted wooden vessel, of 991 tons. She was owned by the Amy Turner Shipping Company. Limited, and was built in 1897 by Smith and Townsend, of East Boston.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17029, 1 May 1923, Page 9
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