WIRELESS CALL
LIFEBOATS OUT IN GALE
TRAWLER’S CREW DROWNED.
ROQKET LINES BLOWN' BACK.
DRAMATIC APPEAL HEARD.
CAPTAIN ACTS TOO LATE
(United Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, September 25.
A fisherman at Filey, listening at his home to a wireless set, tuned in on the trawlers’ wave-length, heard a voice say, “Skegness calling all stations; am grounded.” The voice then stopped abruptly. The Scarborough and Flamborough lifeboats put out in a heavy gale, but were unable to reach the Skegness.
Five lifelines fired by the rocket apparatus were all blown back. The sixth fell right over the Skegness, but no one secured it. ,
The trawler was pounded to pieces on the rocks and all 11 of the crew were drowned.
The captain of the Skegness refused the aid of a lifeboat when the vessel went ashore, listeners hearing a dramatic radio pleading by another trawler, “For God’s sake, man, let me summon a lifeboat or you’ll lose your lives!”
The captain of the Skegness replied: “She is humping,” hut he refused aid for half an hour, when it was too late.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 295, 26 September 1935, Page 7
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