COLLISION IN A FOG

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 13, 15 July 1936, Page 16

COLLISION IN A FOG

Graphic stories were told recently by some of the fourteen survivors of the trawler Picador (424 tons), which sank off the Yorkshire coast three minutes after a collision in the fog. Six *nen were drowned.

The fourteen men were rescued by the oil tanker San Salvador and reached Jarrow. They went to the Seamen's Mission at South Shields where they were given breakfast and clothing. The wireless operator, Thomas Maxwell, aged 27, of. Hull, was taken to the South Shields Infirmary. He has a broken thigh. Eight of the crew of the trawler were at breakfast below when the crash occurred. James Myers.said that as he ran up on deck the ship seemed to sink under his feet, and it was only a matter of seconds before he found himself in the sea.

George Bass said that when he heard the crash he ran out of the galley arid saw "the oil tanker wedged into the trawler. He made a grab at a rope and was hauled on board the tanker.

George Lough said that he and the mate were asleep in their bunks when the collision occurred. Before they could realise what had happened they were struggling in the water. The mate was also vescued.