AN EVENTFUL VOYAGE.
NEW TUG FOR LYTTELTON REACHES FREMANTLE. COLLISION WITH BIG LINER AT LAS PALMAS. (Received Sunday, 6.30 p.m.) PERTH, December 18. The trawler South 'Sea arrived from Hull, en route to Lyttelton. The Chief Engineer, Mr. Morris relates that when leaving Las Palmas, after bunkering, the trawler collided with the ten thousand tonner Stonepool, engaged in the South African trade. The trawler’s bows were stov.e in to fhe waterlina. Captain Dowell transferred his wife to the liner, which also was so badly damaged that she had to be beached, and after a desperate struggle, the foredeck being awash, she reached land nine miles distant. Mrs Dowell says she can claim to have been in two wrecks on one day. The South Stea, after bunkering, leaves Fremantle for Lyttelton direct.
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Wairarapa Age, 19 December 1932, Page 5
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131AN EVENTFUL VOYAGE. Wairarapa Age, 19 December 1932, Page 5
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