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LINER ON
ROCKS
People Leap
Overboard
FOUR LOST
("News" Special Representative)
OSLO, June 20.
OUR women passengers were
drowned when a lifeboat cap
-sized after the German liner Dres
den ran on rocks off the west
coast of Norway and the hull was
lIoled in three places.
/The Dresden struck while the pas
sengers were at dinner, and heeled
over violently. Tables were over
turned and wild panic ensued.
The.liner came off the rocks, but was
run ashdire as soon as the danger of
sinking wks realised. In the meantime -
passengers in panic started to leap
overboard. All. who jumped into the
water were saved, however.
The Dresden, of 14,690 tons gross,
which was formerly the Orient liner
Ormuz, in the Australian trade, was
making a tour of the Norwegian fiords
and carried 1,000 passengers. The
women who lost their lives were Ger
man workers from the Saar Valley.
The liner struck a rock off Bokn
Island, and was refloated without as
sistance, but she soon developed a
heavy list. Water entered by three
holes in the ship's bottom and flooded
tihe stokeroom, .so the vessel was run
ashore on Karm O Island to prevent
sinking.
The Dresden wirelessed to Bergen
asking .for immediate assistance, and
the tourists were landed safely except
the four women who were drowned
from a boat that overturned with 20
women passengers.
HIf.M.S. Rodney was among the ships
that responded to the radio S.O.S.
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