STORY OF THE SEA.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1306, 8 December 1911, Page 6

STORY OF THE SEA.

SWANSEA MAJS'S TEBILLINd ADVKNTORES. A thrilling fitory of adventure and prl< ration was told on October 20 by John Daviea, of Swansea, ono of thq crew of tho steamship Datogrove, which wai wrecked in the White Sea. "nvcrythinz went riplit," eaid Davie?, "until to pot about 150 miles south of Archangel. There were Ihreo of Uβ in a bunk on September 25 when wo suddenly felt an extraordinary sensation, as though wo wore being lilted up. It was like an oarthnn.ikc, and we at onco realised that Burnctiiing boHous had happened. "Wo rushed on deck to find ourselves in the mid.st of a dense fop and afterwards ascertained that we had struck a reef known as 'Three Islands.' Wo got aa many belongings as' wo could together, and took to the boats in perfect order, leaving tho ship about 5.30 in tho afternoon, and getting on to tho coast in pitch darkness. Tlie cold was intense, and we were drenched to th« skin. Benumbed us wo wore, we climbed the cliffs; how we did it I do not know. When wo cot on top we lit urea and cookwl what food wo hod boom ablo to save from the ship. "Later wo set off to find shelter, and after a four miles' tramp, which 1 shall never forgftt, wo reached a lighthouse, where, as best wo could, tho whole .oi us, numbering Bcventeen, put up, sleeping on bare boards and living on black bread. Here we staved for four days, when a tug camo and took us to Archangel. "Wo were most miserably treated, being housed on bare boards and having tx> live on dried fish for breakfast and dinner and some sort of German fausace. For this we were charged a rouble and a half <i week (225. 9d.). At length we wore taken oft in the West Hartlcpool steamer Ripon and landed in the Surrey Commercial Dock."