30' lat.

and 72 deg.

15' long., struck on her starboard quarter a rock, marked in no chart for that part of the sea.

Under the combined efforts of the wind and its four hundred horse power, it was going at the rate of thirteen knots.
Had it not been for the superior strength of the hull of the Moravian, she would have been broken by the shock and gone down with the 237 passengers she was bringing home from Canada.
The accident happened about five o'clock in the morning, as the day was breaking.

The officers of the quarter-deck hurried to the after-part of the vessel.