HUGE SEAS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 19, 23 January 1937, Page 10

HUGE SEAS

STEAMER IN DISTRESS

FOUR OTHERS TO RESCUE

(Received January 23, 2 p.m.) I OSLO, January 22. I A bitter gale, with overwhelming snow blizzards, is sweeping over Nor-1 way, and has extended to the North j Sea. ! Four steamers are rushing to the aid of the Norwegian cargo steamer Karmt, which, heavily laden with coal, is adrift with a crew of twenty. Her hatches are smashed, and the steamer is steadily settling down under the remorseless buffeting of huge seas for four days. The rescuers are the Danish steamer Tennesse, which is sixty miles away, an unnamed Swedish steamer, two hundred miles away, the Norwegian steamer Troja, which is plugging along at a maximum speed of five knots with a gale in her teeth, and the mail steamer Leda, en route to Bergen from England. The lastnamed discharged passengers at Haugesund, the Karmt's home port, and proceeded at full speed to the Karmt, with doctors and medical supplies. The Karmt's captain (Captain Ellingen) has a broken leg and other injuries, owing to a sea bursting aboard and washing him off the bridge. Others of the crew are severely injured. The Karmt's owner at Haugesund is trying to supplement the rescue efforts with a specially-chartered vessel. The Swedish steamer Lilleinwalch is also endangered by towering seas, and is sending out SOS appeals. LOST WITH ALL HANDS (Received January 23, 2 pm) HULL, January 22. The trawler Admiral Collingwood, caught in an earlier storm, is given ' up for lost with all hands, including 1 four apprentices. She was one of the ' new super trawlers.