RESCUE FROM SINKING CARGO SHIP
TWENTY PERSONS TAKEN OFF DURING GALE
NEW YORK, December 26.
The story of a thrilling sea rescue was told when the American freighter Schodack landed 18 men and two women from the Norwegian freighter Smaragd. Three hundred miles from Bermuda the Smaragd, which was without wireless, attracted the Schodack’s attention with flares, and then signalled SOS by Morse with an electric flashlight. A full gale was blowing, and the Smaragd had to wait all night until dawn, when the Schodack discharged 350 barrels of oil, smoothing the water sufficiently to enable them to launch a small boat from each vessel to make the rescue.
One seaman lost two fingers in launching a boat, but otherwise all were uninjured. The crew were virtually without food while they struggled at the pumps against the heavy inflow of water. The Smaragd sank an hour after the rescue.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22595, 28 December 1938, Page 9
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