MUTINY AND WRECK
STEAMER’S BAD PLIGHT. CREW'S FATE IN DOUBT. VANCOUVER, November 26. Six weeks ago tho Japanese freighter Shinkoku Maru broke her propeller shaft in tho North Pacific. To-day, in a howling gale, she drifted ashore on Montague Island (at tho entrance to Prince William Sound, South-eastern Alaska). After one of tho longest and most terrible fights ; u marine history she is a total wreck, and the fats of some of the crew of thirtyfive is still in doubt. The Japanese captain reported several days ago that the crew had mutinied. The ship had been helpless for a week when tho American steamer Algonquin arrived, but she smashed her towing apparatus, and could only stand by until the arrival of the tug Humaconna from Seattle. During last week the Humaconna made little progress, the weather being too heavy, and to-day the gale became so terrible that the Humaconna cut loose to save herself. The Shinkoku Maru disappeared in a cloud of spray among the rocks. The Humaconna, according to a message from Cordova, Alaska, rescued twenty of the crew, who were swimming with lifebelts. The other fifteen have probably been lost.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 18503, 10 December 1923, Page 8
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