DAILY EXPRESS
Cutting dated 18-AUG-1971 19
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Four Britons die in sea drama
HONGKONG, Tuesday
HE ship that was killed by Typhoon
THE
Rose lies on its side today with 74 men trapped below decks and all hope of saving them gone.
Four are officers of the British Merchant Navy. include
They Captain Ivor Price, master of the ship.
The other 70 who drowned are Chinese
crew.
The typhoon struck when the 2.500-ton Fat- shan was anchored in Hongkong harbour.
Winds so strong that they broke a measuring gauge ashore ripped 27 seagoing craft from their moorings and sent them crashing on to rocks and beaches.
As one of these craft was being buffeted across the harbour it struck the Fatshan,
ESCAPE
The white-hulled, many-windowed ferryboat heeled over in 30ft. of water. Only four of those aboard escaped. They were Chinese deckhands thrown into the sea
Captain Price came to the China coast from South Wales 35 years ago. Friends in Hong- kong tonight said he had survived hundreds of typhoons.
But most of them had struck when he was in the open sea and clear of any other ship on a collision course.
Today Typhoon Rose struck indiscriminately in and around Hong- kong. At least 25 people were killed in the destruction on shore.
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