WRECKED SEAMEN
EIGHT DIE ON RAFT
Rec. 9 a.m
LONDON, Nov. 25,
Eight seamen died on a raft off the coast of Cornwall from hunger and exposure after the 806-ton Liverpool collier, Sturdee Rose, capsized on the way from Garston to Plymouth. Four survivors who landed at Cork on Friday, said the ship suddenly lurched and turned over on November 13. Though the weather was fine when they took to the raft, it later became rough. They drifted toward the shore, but the wind veered and blew them out to sea. This recurred continually in the ensuing eight days. They were without food and water and eight died, one by one. Several ships passed without noticing them. A Canadian vessel eventually picked up the survivors.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 127, 26 November 1945, Page 7
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