BRAVED TERRIFIC SEAS
SAILORS GO TO THE RESCUE. (rSITED pans ASSOCIATION—BT ELECTRIC TBIiORAPH—COPTRIOHT.) (Received November sth, 10.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, November 5. A story is told of the great bravery and determination of six sailors who manned a lifeboat from the steamer Saros on Sunday night and went to the assistance of the crew of the stranded trawler Gunondaal, which was ashore off Cape Howe in a raging sea. About 10 p.m. the captain of the Baros saw distress signals in the vicinity of the beach on Gabo Island. A lifeboat, with the chief officer and five of the crew, put off in pitch darknees and rowed for three hours. Dregehed and cold, they were tossed like a cork, but eventually located the trawler on the reef. Her lights were all extinguished, but when the lifeboat was unable to get alongside the men shouted through the darkness to those on board the trawler, and the reply came: "No assistance wanted, thank you!" The crew of the Saros then commenced to row back to their vessel in the thickest of weather and reached it safely after a four hours' terrible battle with wind and waves. The trawler's crev,- reached Sydney to-day little the worse for thoir experience.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19769, 6 November 1929, Page 7
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