MARITIME CASUALTIES.
PAPANUS DESTROYED BY FIRE ABLAZE FROM ST.ESI TO STERN. ST. HELENA, September 13. The steamer Papanui, bound- from Glasgow to sVest Australia, is afire from stem to stern. The vessel has been gutted, after being beached and aLv-iidovcd. The whole of those woo wire aloard have not yet been landed.
ALL PASSENGERS SAVED. VESSEL A TOTAL WRECK. (Received Sept. 14, 10.50 p.m.) ST. HELENA, Sept. 14. The cable steamer Brittania accommodated 150 of the Papanui’s women and children, and the rest were landed by the Papanui’s boats. The burning steamer was beached at Jamestown Bay, and is a total wreck. KNSGHT OF ST. GEORGE WRECK. TIDAL WAVE BLAMED FOR DISASTER. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.] SYDNEY, September 14. The captaini of the steamer Knight of St George, writing to the agents an, September Ist, states that they had. salved £IO,OOO worth of cargo, and if the weather held good they would probably land all the general cargos within a, week. He attributes the' disaster to volcanic disturbances causing a tidal wave, which set the vessel nine miles out of and. ahead of heir course in an hour and a< half.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3323, 15 September 1911, Page 5
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191MARITIME CASUALTIES. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3323, 15 September 1911, Page 5
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