Rolling in the grey North Atlantic swell, His Majesty's sloop Harebell and the steamer Dunara Castle lay off the bleak precipitous island of St. Kilda last week. Plunging out through the surf. Royal Navy lifeboats carried to the Harebell 35 passengers, the entire population of St. Kilda, which the Harebell's precise commander reported thus: Men, able bodied 8
Men, aged 2
Wives 5
Widows 6
Girls, able bodied 2
Children, of school age 8
Children, under school age 3
Old Woman 1
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Meanwhile the captain & crew of the Dunara Castle were working like demons,...
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