WOMEN'S STRUGGLE IN SEA
TORPEDOED SHIP VICTIMS (0.C.) SYDNEY, Sept. 27. The chief steward of a ship which was torpedoed, Mr. Win. Gilson, of Sydney, told how two women missionaries, Miss Chris Mclntyre, of Sydney, and Mrs. Rose, cf Colombo, struggled in a rough sea for an hour before they were picked up. They had failed to get into the lifeboats and had jumped overboard in their lifebelts. Mr. Gilson said that the steamer was torpedoed at 2.55 a.m., when all but the men on watch were in their bunks.
"We got into the boats almost level with the water," he stated. "The sea was so rough that we could not push the boats clear of the sinking ship. Fortunately, she went down with little suction, and we found.ourselves drifting' over the wreckage. "We had been rolling about in the big sea for an hour in the darkness when I heard calls for help. Our boat moved over in the direction of the calls, and I saw the heads of the two women bobbing around amid the debris. We hauled them aboard as they came to us on the crest of a sea."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 232, 30 September 1944, Page 4
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