LOSS OF THE HERA
NINETEEN MEN DROWNED SHIP STRIKES"~AT MIDNIGHT. (By Telegraph."-Press A6sociatlon.*-Copyright.) LONDON, Ist February. Nineteen of those aboard the German ship Hera, which sank off Nare Head while bound to Falmouth, were drowned. The ship struck the rocks at mid* night. The crew launched a boat, which capsized, and the captain and fifteen of the men disappeared. Five others struggled back to the wreck, and rejoined three who had been left aboard, They took refuge in , the rigeing. The chief officer was the last to take refuge. He lashed himself to a mast and blew a whistle to attract attention. As the water was gaining on him, and realising that the end was approaching, he handed the whistle to a sailor with the remark : "You can do better than I." A few minutes later the sea covered him. A Falmouth lifeboat heard the faint whistle, but meanwhile a huge wave had washed three of the remaining members of the crew off the ship. A lifeboat rescued the five who were left.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 28, 3 February 1914, Page 7
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