RESCUE OF A SHIPWRECKED CREW.
[PBESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received August 20, 10.24 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The agents for the steamer Drayton Urange havo been advised that the Netherlands Government has awarded Captain Bennett a medal for his services in rescuing the shipwrecked crew of the barque Qeerlruida Gerarda, whiUt the steamer was carrying New Zealand troops to the Cape. Tho owner of the barque has written thanking Captain Bennett and the % crew for their generous treatment of the castaway s. [The barque was abandoned in a helpless condition by the captain, his wife, and sixteen of the crew, but three other men, thinking the boat was overloaded, refused to go in her. The three men wcro afterwards taken off by the steamer St. Mary and landed at Fremnntle. No news being received for some time of tho missing boat, it wus supposed that its occupants had perished. On the ai rival of the Drayton Grango (with Mr. Seddon and New Zealand troops on board) at Capetown, however, the welcome news was flashed abroad that the boat had been fallen in with by that vessel, and the captain and crew taken on board.]
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Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 44, 20 August 1902, Page 5
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192RESCUE OF A SHIPWRECKED CREW. Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 44, 20 August 1902, Page 5
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