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Message: [QUOTE="Mark Baber, post: 275599, member: 79063"] [i]The New York Times, 19 March 1907[/i] [b]PASSENGERS SAVED FROM THE SUEVIC[/b] --- Women and Children Taken Off First---Vessel Will Probably Be a Total Loss --- LINER JEBBA IS WRECKED --- Those on Board Her Rescued---Four Other Steamers Ashore on the English Coast --- LONDON, March 18---Details of the disaster to the White Star Line steamer Suevic, homeward bound from Sydney, New South Wales, by way of Cape Town, with nearly 600 passenger and crew on board, show that she struck the Brandies Rock [sic] close under the Lizard Lighthouse, at about 10:30 last night, and will probably be a total wreck. Lifeboats and tugs from the Lizard and Falmouth soon reached the scene and, together with the Suevic's own boats, commenced landing the passengers. The women and children were first sent ashore. There were no fewer than 160 children on board, many of them being infants in arms, whom the local fisherman and their wives lifted out of the boats and carried through the surf to near-by cottages. A fresh wind, rough sea, and fog hampered the landing operations, but the fog lifted at about 7 in the morning, and from thence forward boats loaded in quick succession. By 1 P. M. all the passengers had been landed, but the crew stood by the wreck. Capt. Jones, commander of the Suevic, had been at sea for thirty-nine years, and this was to be his last voyage. The North German Lloyd liner Kaiser Wilhelm II. this morning passed close astern of the Suevic, which was then thronged with passengers. The wrecked steamer's ow [sic] was low in the water, her fore compartments were full, and she seemed to be pinnacled on the rocks. As plenty of assistance was standing by the White Star liner, the Kaiser Wilhelm II., which had been going slow for ten hours owing to the fog, did not stop, but proceeded for Plymouth. Almost within sight of the Suevic, the Elder-Dempster Line steamer Jebba, from Calabar, Lagos, and other West African ports for Plymouth and Liverpool, ran on the rocks under the cliffs near Prawle Point in the early hours of the morning. Her seventy passengers, many of whom were soldiers invalided home from the West Coast of Africa, and her crew were safely taken ashore by the breeches buoy. Heavy seas are breaking over the steamer, rendering the lifeboats which are still standing by her useless. The Jebba will prove a total loss. Steamers, some of which are described as being large, are ashore near Rye, Dungeness, Dover, and Cuckmere. The vessel ashore off Cuckmere is the British steamer Newstead, from Novorossysk, Black Sea. Her position is serious. -30- [/QUOTE]

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