HUMAN MONKEY
FALL FROM TOPSAIL YARD. LONDON, June 25. While working on a topsail yard 100 ft above the deck, Saharoff, a Russian sailor, on the Finnish ship Lawhill, lost his balance owing to the breaking of a rope, and fell into the sea. He rose to the surface, and swimming easily, overtook the ship, which was making two knots an hour. “I’ve lost ray cap,” he exclaimed, in a tone of annoyance, but returned to work without further ado. “He is a real human monkey,” said R. H. Bristowe, of Adelaide, a sailor on the Lawhill, to a “Sun”representative. “He used to stand on his head on the mast head in calm weather, and somersault on to the yardarms.” The Finns told Bristowe that at least one Australian wa,s killed on their sailing ships each year.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 4 July 1931, Page 12
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