FURTHER VICTIMS
BRITISH TANKER IN TROUBLE CONTACT LOST WITH TUG AND BARGES (Rec. 11.55 a.m.) NEW YORK, January 15.' Rescue craft speeding through tli® Atlantic storms to aid the crippled ; freighter Tecuinseh Park received a call for assistance from the British tanker Fossularca which reported that her rudder was damaged and she was unable to steer in the heavy seas. She gave her position as 290 miles east of St. Johns, Newfoundland. Later oneof the rescue ships radioed that the British steamer Empire Macalum, 155 miles away and bound for Liverpool, was going to the aid of the Fossularca. The Tecuinseh Park’s latest radio .message stated that she was struggling along at five knots in heavy seas. While the Swedish liner Gripsholm , battled the storm for 11 days -from Goteborg to ,New York, 10,000 , seasickness pills ,were handed out to distressed travellers. Five hundred of the 1,243 passengers went to the sick bav for pills in a single day ; The tug Bobolink, towing two oil ’: barges from San Francisco to Honolulu, is four • days overdue. All * radio contact has been lost. Fifteen men are believed to be aboard the tug and barges.
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Evening Star, Issue 26001, 16 January 1947, Page 7
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192FURTHER VICTIMS Evening Star, Issue 26001, 16 January 1947, Page 7
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