| Show I I 50 Feared Lost LostIn LostIn In Wreck Of British Ship LONDON April 24 2 UP Ex UP-Ex- Ex Exchange change Telegraph ph reported from Calcutta Thursday that the steamer Sir Harvey Adamson carrying passengers was be- be lIc cd to have sunk during a cyclone e Sunday off the coast of or Burma PORTHCAWL VL VL Wales April 24 UP UP Fifty men were missing and apparently dead Thursday in the wreck of oC the operated British Liberty Lib lAb erty ship hurled against the point rocks near the mouth of the Bristol channel b by an mile hour gale Eleven bodies covered with fuel oil had been recovered Hope was virtually abandoned for or the other i members of the man 42 Sam tamp a crew and the eight m men n of oC a lifeboat lifeboat lifeboat life life- boat capsized while trying to reach the stricken cargo ship The was tossed broadside broadside broadside broad broad- side against the rocks yards ards offshore at 7 pm p.m. Wednesday Coast watchers saw men on deck swept into the sea by the waves When attempts to reach rench the vessel with a line and lifeboat fail failed cd it broke Into three parts Four of oC the first 11 bodies washed ashore were believed those of lifeboat crewmen Another rescue rescue crew battled Its Its Its' way vay through the lashing seas to the wreckage early Thursday They boarded the thees vessel yes ves essel sd sel and found no sl signs ns of nf life Apparently Apparently Ap Ap- Ap- Ap nIl all hands aboard had drowned A thorough h search was impossible until the storm sub sub- sided The first lifeboat which sought to reach the was as found upside down on the beach at dawn There was no sign slen of any crew members The was built buill at Portland Me in 1943 The vessel was operated by the Houlder Brothers Steamship line for tor the ministry of transport under lease from the war shipping administration tion The vessel was running in ballast ballast bal bal bal- last when the gale eale struck A distress distress distress dis dis- dis- dis I tress flare was sent up by her hel crew shortly before beCore the ship hit the rocks In the same gale miles southwest o of here the old British battleship was aground near Penzance at the sout southwestern western tip Up of England Holes had been smashed In the battleships battleship's hull by rocks and ond she was shipping water |
