TERRIBLE STORY OF THE SEA.

Bush Advocate, Volume XVII, Issue 65, 18 March 1905, Page 5

TERRIBLE STORY OF THE SEA.

* (Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph— Copyright. London, March 17. After sighting the Lizard, the ship Khyber lost several of her sails, and became unmanageable. She drifted shoreward, and anchored late on Tuesday four hundred yards off Borthgwarra. Towards morning she began to drift, big seas broke over her, and forced the men into the rigging. The mizzen mast was carried away, drowning five. It was impossible to launch the coastguards' Lifeboat. The vessel went on the rocks, and broke immediately. Willis jumped overboard, and was washed ashore, and revived, after an hour's artificial respiration. Harris and Joansen gained a rock, and were rescued with great difficulty by means of a ladder and rope from the cliff. The vessel was reduced to matchwood. Joansen, seaman, joined the Shyber at Melbourne. Harris, cabin boy, was a Freemantle resident.