GHASTLY ADVENTURES

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 149, 12 March 1923, Page 7

GHASTLY ADVENTURES

OF GRIMSBY TRAWLER’S CREW RATS AND SEAGULLS AS FOOD BY TELEGBAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT. (Rec. March 11, 5.5 p.m.) London, March 10. Rais and seagulls as food were included in the ghastly adventures related when the crew of tho Grimsby trawler Sorgon arrived at Aberdeen today. The first adventure was a chase by a Bolshevik gunboat. The Sorgon when escaping ran into a storm, and the battered vessel, with her engines broken down, then drifted into ice ana was helpless for weeks. Tho men lived on fish, and when that was exhausted made cake of linseed meal and olive oil found in the medicine chest. When this was exhausted they ate raw gull flesh. Afterwards starving, ferocious rats emerged from their holes, seeking food, and the men caught, killed, roasted, and ate them. An outbreak of dysentery followed, and the men had given up hope when rescued by a German trawler and towed to Iceland. The men’s families waited all day long at Grimsby to-day for the arrival of the Sorgon, and were disappointed when news of the vessel’s detention at Aberdeen was received. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ■ [A week ago it was reported that twelve' Grimsby fishermen were safe in Iceland, after being mourned tor dead for a month. The crew of a trawler were carried into the North Atlantic by severe gales. They subsisted on fish for sixteen davs.. i“° owners gave the vessel up for lost, compensation was paid, ano the wives went into mourning. The ren were rescued by a German trawler, wrn.h towed them 200 miles.]