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/270 SailorsSIGGOComm;Ars DrownedYacht Iolaine Total Wreck Off Storwaway, ScotlandLondon, Jan. I—Two hundred and seventy sailors were drowned today as the result of the loss of the British steam yacht Iolaire, off StornPR03MTITUJONDON,conferr and Vice-/ tion of thwar, accorIt is stc Plumer, B and Allenlpeerage, those hone grants ofnouncemerThe Mail Marshal Fcommand the treatycway, Scotland. The yacht had 300sailors on board, lhey were on a New Year’s leave.The vessel struck on che dangerous rocks known as “the beats of hell,” near Stornoway harbor, and only about thirty of . them were saved, many of these terribly injured in their efforts to reach the shore. All the officers and crew of the Iolaire were lost. h• 4 W ^ r 9The Iolaire was a vessel of 302 tons. She was built in 1902, and before the war belonged to the estate of the late Sir Donald Currie.
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St Johns Daily Star
St Johns, Newfoundland, CA
Thu, Jan 02, 1919
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