TRAGEDY OF THE SEA
OFFICERS AND GREW DROWNED FAILED TO WAIT FOR LIFEBOAT Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. AMSTERDAM, January 17. (Received January 18, at 11 a.m.) Eleven officers and crew of the steamer Oakford, which was stranded in a gale after springing a leak off Texel Island, were , drowned after- taking to the ship’s boat. Nine bodies were washed up on the Vliahorst sandbank. . A Dutch lifeboat had put out, but the crew declined to be taken off. Heavier weather ensued and the captain signalled for. assistance. He received the lifeboat station’s -v reply warning him to stand by until it was possible, to send help. Later he abandoned the-vessel, apparently fearing that it would founder. The lifeboat, after a delay due to low tide,, reapproached the "vessel, but found her deserted.
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Evening Star, Issue 21623, 19 January 1934, Page 11
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131TRAGEDY OF THE SEA Evening Star, Issue 21623, 19 January 1934, Page 11
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