FIGHT FOR LIFE IN AN OPEN BOAT
.London,*' Jah'uii7 : ;'-21; : |' 1 . The captain tra\d6r. Blizab'e'th_'Anne, !;• of Bidef6rd;i and his two sons, 'who arrived in ■ j' ;Bristol 3 yesterdayi , '''had* a' raraarkablb escapo. ' ; ,frorrt ;Th6y ileft'Appledore,'.a ; village ! oh tlie Torri'dge, - above ; Bidteford; with ':» a ,cargo''bf . .'they ; ''reachM' th®. i : > .bar they were* caught i-u' the race 1 jaud tossed' J ' ; ' .helplessly 'about;'. -'There waVi gale blowing,- ' and'the' seas which' washed over tho ! little vessel fcarried/off: all : her deck 1 fittings.' Sidney;. . /the-ca'ptain'si eighteen-year-old; son, launched ' '• a small: boat, which was -caught by a wave, 'dashed against -the. trawler,: arid-vcapsized.' -- Tho.i youth' clungi ! to the -ropes,'' arid when; his .father :icalled to'himv.to drag'ihimself aboard he replied can't: ' : .- 1 At ■ great -risk-- the' father succeeded'.'iri-^drag-' ■■■ '• : ging him on board,, and for an hour tho •in-":- ! . v ']ur&;.youth. i clung'''to '-the' inast-v i'VAll ' tho time Itho 'vessel was' being tossed'about, and whon-hopo. of«keeping-, her afloat had been -v jgiven i ; '3?lfo»''boy ™ takoii: "to GHoVellyJ i t'riitvler' was uAvi- r '''* gated 3 tor Bristol <with .//The cap-; %' .-tain-had several l ribs broken.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 140, 7 March 1908, Page 10
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