THREE WRECKS
AN ADVENTUROUS VOYAGE. Forty-eight French seamen were in three wrecks on one voyage, according to the story they told when they arrived recently at Liverpool, England, on the liner Redsea. On the liner were three crews which had been in one or more of the wrecks The Frenchmen were fishermen. First they lost their own craft, a small fishing schooner, and were picked up b> another fishing boat. That in turn foundered in the storm and the two crews were taken otf board the French schooner Essor, which a few hours later became waterlogged and sank. The Redsea rescued the men at midnight with great difficulty. Captain Turner, of the Redsea, said that his vessel was on a voyage from Montreal to Queenstown when she sighted the schooner burning flares 700 miles off the coast of Ireland. The crew had been working at the pumps day and night for four days.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LX, Issue 11086, 8 April 1933, Page 3
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