BATTLE WITH GALES
DISABLED LINER IN TOW
PULLED INTO SORT AT LAST
(Received 19th December, 2 p.m.)
LONDON, 18th December
After a thrilling battle with gales three Dutch tugs have brought the disabled liner Jamaica Settler to Falmouth. A terrific sea like a tidal wave smashed the steamer's rudder in midAtlantic. She drifted at the mercy of the- storm for a week, after which a tug picked up her S.O.S. and took tho liner in tow. The hawsers parted and the tug was driven off 350 miles A second tug arrived and in a fortnight's voyage the hawsers snapped in successive hurricanes. A third tug was dispatched and towed the Jamaica Settler a thousand miles.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 148, 19 December 1929, Page 9
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115BATTLE WITH GALES Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 148, 19 December 1929, Page 9
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