THRILLING rescue
GERMAN MARINE CADETS Australian Press Association. (Received 27th November, 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, 26t\h November. The officers and cadet's of the mercantile marine training barque the Pommern, landed from the German tug Hcros, tell a thrilling story of their rescue. They were heading for Portsmouth, when in idie heavy gale on Saturday tho Pommern's three masts wero washed away in quick succession. A German steamer nearby failed to get alongside, and the Pommern drifted at the niercy of the gale for several hours. The German tug Sealfalke managed to pull alongside, but every attempt to get a hawser aboard failed. Heavy sens smashed in all the Pommern's lifeboats, and tho water was rising in the hold. The Heros struggled all night long before sho got a lifeline aboard. The boys aboard wero drawn up on deck in perfect discipline, and wero dragged off singly through tho water, till an Admiralty tug came and rescued the remainder.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 121, 27 November 1928, Page 11
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THRILLING rescue
Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 121, 27 November 1928, Page 11
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