TRAWLER FOUNDERS IN HUMBER RIVER
Two Survivors Picked Up FOURTEEN MEN BELIEVED TO HAVE PERISHED By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. (Received January 10, 5.5 p.m.) London. January 10. Men aboard the steamer Goole, hearing cries for help in the darkness in the Humber, launched a small boat ana picked up a man who was clinging to a piece of wreckage. He said that he had been in the water an hour. He belonged to the Hull steam trawler Edgar Wallace, of 336 tons, which, when returning with a catch, struck a sandbank, heeled over and foundered. In (ho meantime the crew of another ship picked up a second survivor. It is feared that 14 perished when trapped by-the inflow of water. The spot whee the trawler sank was located, but a long search for other survivors was fruitless.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 91, 11 January 1935, Page 9
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137TRAWLER FOUNDERS IN HUMBER RIVER Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 91, 11 January 1935, Page 9
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