WIRELESS OPERATOR'S EXPERIENCE.
When the British steamer Maid of Corfu was in a hurricane off the Argentine coast recently the wireless operator underwent a remarkable experience. A mountainous sea broke aboard, and in addition to inflicting other damage, tore the wireless cabin from its stanchions and swept it overboard with the operator inside. He was in his bunk reading at the time, and thought the room had been flooded, so dropped down off the berth to what he supposed was the floor when he foil through the bottomless house into the sea. His foot was caught m some wreckage, but he liberated it and clambered on to the roof, only to see Uio ship steaming away. He was seen waving and the vessel put back and rescued him, after, skilful manoeuvring, with a lifebuoy and line.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 77, 27 September 1924, Page 24
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