TRAGEDY OF THE SEA.
A WHALER IN DISTRESS. FOUR OF CREW DEAD, THE REST SICK.
Press Association.—Telegraph.—Copyright Received June 23, 9.35 a.m.
LONDON, June 22. The steamer Hi.skmoor sighted the whaler, Sound of Jura, voyaging from tho Southern Pacific. She was helpless, four of her crew being dead from beriberi. and the rest wore sick. The topmast was broken. She towed the Sound of Jura seven hundred miles to St. Vincent.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14015, 23 June 1913, Page 5
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71TRAGEDY OF THE SEA. Wanganui Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14015, 23 June 1913, Page 5
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