Total Toss
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The £750,000, 6,000 -ton freighter “Southbank”, which went aground at Washington Island last December, has now been abandoned by the underwriters along with her cargo of lead, copra and cocoa worth about £1 i million.
This is one of a series of photographs taken by Mr. P. F. D.
Palmer, Burns Philp manager at Fanning Island who went to Washington Island with 50 Gil bertese to load copra into the “Southbank” . The ship began to break up soon after the picture was taken.
The 61 survivors of the ship wreck were taken to Honolulu in a US Coastguard cutter after about a fortnight on the island.