LINER BUFFETED
VIOLENT ATLANTIC GALE. SEAMAN LOST OVERBOARD. THIRTY PASSENGERS INJURED. RUGBY, August 21. The Anchor liner Cameronia, 16,000 tons, on her arrival at Glasgow from New York this morning, reported encountering a violent Atlantic gale in which one seaman was washed overboard and thirty passengers injured. The Cameronia hove-te for two hours while a boat’s crew, at great risk, unsuccessfully searched the sea for the missing man. The fuff force of the gale was felt last Friday when passengers were at dinner. Huge seas caused the great liner to roll to amazing angles, and passengers were flung from 'their seats and furniture and crockery .broken.
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Wairarapa Age, 23 August 1934, Page 5
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