RESCUE AT SEA.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 10, 13 January 1931, Page 7

RESCUE AT SEA.

BRITISH VESSEL'S WORK. LOXEOX. January S. Magnificent rescue work at =ea in the height of a gale was performed by the P. and u. liner Viceroy of India, when r:ie went to the aid. of the Greek steamer Theodoras Bulgaria, which, had sent out the S.O.S. signal. The Viceroy of India arrived at Plymouth with tke erew of 30 and two stowaways from the Theodores Bulgaris. After an eight hours' rush, through tempestuous seas in response to the 5.0.5., the Viceroy of India's captain decided to use oil to break the force ox the waves and ordered away a lifeboat. It made slow progress to tlie Bulgaria, watched by the liner's excited passeagers. The attempt to approach on the weather side failed. ' Then the lifeboat approached from leeward and threw a line to the Bulgaria. Nineteen of the I crew were hauled into the lifeboat, and j the remaining 13 succeeded in lowering their own boat mid reaching the Viceroy of India. Captain Cambanig. at the Buig-ari-*, described the Viceroy's: manoeuvring usd the lifeboat's race through the stormy seas as wonderful. He added that the seas by which his ship \va.= battered were terrific, and caused a .langerous Ust. S Water nssbed into thu engine-room, bat I •.!;■■■ t-uraps nrers kept 2oin<r, the xiremen I working waist-deep In water. "I finally |! s-iimuioiied aJI haadSe'on deck us a. proi nminyn- :n abandoning s<»ip."