SAVED FROM SUNKEN SHIP
A seaman. Captain Jones, of Anglesey, stood on the bridge of the steamship Orchis recently, two hours out ot the Cornish port of Par. He was three miles off Penearrow Point. Suddenly, from the engine room, came an urgent warning: “The ship’s sinking.” The aft part of the' engine room had sprung a leak. The water was rising every second. The captain gave the order: “Man the boat.”
The nine men of the crew sprang to it without stopping to take any clothes or belongings. In smin the ship had sunk. The men in the boat, some of them in their ninglets, were tossed and drenched in the heavy seas. The coastguards at Polruan saw the ship in distress, and the Fowey lifeboat put off. But a Mevagissey fishing boat found the battered boat and took the men on board.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ESD19360128.2.74
Bibliographic details
Evening Star, Issue 22248, 28 January 1936, Page 11
Word Count
144SAVED FROM SUNKEN SHIP Evening Star, Issue 22248, 28 January 1936, Page 11
Using This Item
Allied Press Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons New Zealand BY-NC-SA licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Allied Press Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.