HORROR AT SEA
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter)
ST. JOHN’S, Newfoundland, Dec. 29. Captain Tom Sawyer told today of a horrorfilled Christmas morning on the blazing Hull trawler Finbarr with halfnaked seamen fighting for their lives in a temperature 10 degrees below zero.
Dense black smoke and flames prevented speedy launching of liferafts and stopped men breaking through to living quarters where others were believed to be, he said. Two rafts were launched but quickly lost. “We tried and tried, but just hadn’t the strength. It was so cold. Nobody had any clothes, just trousers,” he said.
Captain Sawyer and 12 other survivors were helped ashore last night from the Hull trawler Orsino, which snatched them to safety after explosions wracked their ship off the Labrador coast. Twelve seamen died in the disaster—lo below deck and two during the rescue efforts.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31255, 30 December 1966, Page 9
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