SAVED BY GOOD SEAMANSHIP.

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 36, 11 August 1923, Page 14

SAVED BY GOOD SEAMANSHIP.

.Only the good judgment and seamanship of the captain of the wrecked Canadian Pacific liher Marvale averted a catastrophe which might havfe involved heavy loss of life. The ilafyale, which, lost her direction in a heavy 'fog, ran on a reef off Cape lTreel, on the East Canadian coast, tearing her side out and then .slipped bafck into deep water.' Captain Lewis immediately. recognised that the vessel was doomed," and Ivied to beach her, but soon found she :- was sink^ ing rapidly. He succeeded in removing the whole of the passengers and the crew before the final plunge.,: The passengers and crew experienced a hard time. When they landed near the village of St. Shotts they found tlie village neat famine, point- Owing to the impossibility of getting food supplies through the long-continUed ic e blockade, the inhabitants were only able to supply sufficient food for the women and children, the men going hungry until the arrival of the steamer Seal next morning with supplies.of provisions for both/castaways and villagers. Surveys of the sunken Mar Vale are being' made in. tie. hope of eventually raising the vessel-should good weather prevail. ■.