SHIPPING DISASTER
OFF MOUTH OF HUMBER TUG COLLIDES WITH STEAMER EIGHTEEN .MEN MISSING. ?r«i Awocialion —By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, August 18. (Received August 19, at 11 a.ra.) Four officers and fourteen men are missing ns, the result of a collision thirty miles from the mouth of the Humber, in which a largo ocean-going tug', the King’s Cross, collided amidships with the Spanish steamer Ogono and sank her in six . minutes? The crew were unable to launch the boats and jumped overboard, except the steward, who climbed the after mast and clung to the shrouds until another vessel rescued him. The King’s Cross stood by and picked up eight of the Ogono’s crew. The collier Starlight saved the ninth and a third vessel the tenth, and also recovered the bod.y of- the wireless operator. The King’s Cross, whoso stem was badly buckled, brought the body and survivors to Grimsby. Ugaldo, the second mate on the Ogono, the only officer saved, said he saw from the bridge the King’s Cross’s lights approaching and hoard two siren blasts. The collision immediately followed. He and his shipmates clung to an overturned lifeboat until they were rescued.—Australian Press AssociationUnited Service.
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Evening Star, Issue 20257, 19 August 1929, Page 12
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