TRAGEDY OF THE SEA.

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 90, 17 April 1906, Page 5

TRAGEDY OF THE SEA.

LOSS OP THE BRITISH KING. (Per Mail ■Steamer.) BOSTON, J4tb March.

Suffering, mental and physical, mid numerous acts of heroism, in saving life rarely equalled in the records of ti agedies of the sea attended the loss of the Phoenix lino steamer British King, which, on Sunday Jast, in it raging Atlantic storm, foundered about 150 miles south of Sable Island, and carried to death twenty-seven members of the crew. Thirteen were rescued from tho sinking vessel by the Leyland liner Bostonia, bound from Manchester to Boston, and eleven by the tank steamer Mannheim. Five olhers, who had been drawn into the vortex whore the British King .sank, were picked up from v, frail bit of wreckage they hud. grasped after a desperate struggle in the whirlpool. Captain James O'Hagon, of tho British King, died aboard the Boataniau from injuries sustained in trying to *avo the> ship. The rescued brought here include : —James Fiannegun, second oili-. C * e j; t ?' D- CVawf:"d, chief engineer; Adolphus Brew, fourth engineer; .and William J. Curry, steward The others were coal passers and sailors, mostly Belgians, and one stowaway from Now York. Two lifeboats of the Bostonian were crushed and volunteer crews were thrown into tho high running sera, while engaged in the work of rescue, but all safely reached the steamer again. They were rescued, by lines thrown from their own steamer. A second boat-load o! rescuers was thrown into the sea, and only rescued after an hour's work by comrades. The British King sailed from New York for Antwerp on 7th March with n miscellaneous cargo, and 150 cattle. Pievious to the appeaiancc of the rescuing steamers every small boat of the British King had been demollahfid, tind tUtio wtus no way of