LINER IN GALE

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 December 1934, Page 7

LINER IN GALE

SEAMAN WASHED OVERBOARD CABINS FLOODED [by CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Recd. December 2Q, 10 a.m.) LONDON, December 19. The Orford arrived at Plymouth only half-an-hour late, after battling with an 80-mile gale in the Bay of Biscay. One seaman was lost overboard. All the furniture was lashed. The damage was confined to kitchens, pantries, storerooms, and barber’s shop. Thousands of pieces of crockery . were smashed. The barber’s shop was'a mass of wreckage, every movdble article being broken. . . • . ' The Orford heeled over to thirty degrees. On entering the English Channel, a tremendous wave struck her. The two lower decks were awash, and torrents of water poured in tho third-class. accommodation, flooding the cabins and forcing tho passengers to evacuate. The Orford went. astern, .and lifeboats were lowered; within four minutes of the cry “Klan overboard!” He was swimming strongly, but. disappeared suddenly/ The search: "'Was abandoned after an hour. SISTO CREW*RESCUED.’ RUGBY, December 19. Early this morning, all sixteen members of the crew of the Norwegian steamer Sistd were taken off the drifting craft by a lifeboat of the s.s. New York. This gallant rescue in huge seas was made possible by reason of the vessels which stood by to provide shelter, and poured oil on the sea and directed searchlights on the Sisto.