“SUNK LIKE A STONE”
GREEK STEAMER RUN DOWN IN CHANNEL.
SOLITARY SURVIVOR PICKED UP.
CREW OF TWENTY OR THIRTY LOST.
(Received Tuesday, 7.10 p.m.) LONDON, ebruary 13.
“She must have sunk like a stone,” radioed the British steamer Dartford, after colliding in a fog in the Channel with the Greek steamer Meandros, of 4,309 tons, of which no trace was discernible. Only one survivor was picked up out of a crew of twenty or thirty. The collision occurred 131 miles south-east of St. Catherines Lighthouse. The Dartford expects to reach Portland in the morning, with her bows damaged.
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Wairarapa Age, 14 February 1934, Page 5
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