DEAD IN BEDROOM
.MASTER OF WRECKED STEAMER LONDON, September. -15. The American master of the United States steamer Helena Modjeska, which ran aground on the Goodwin Sands'on Friday, Captain W. H. Curren who was rescued with his crew yesterday when an Evening News reporter’s boat discovered the ship s plight, was found dead, locked in his hotel bedroom, at Ramsgate to-day. The serious position of the Helena Modjeska was discovered by a reporter, whose boat took off the master and 20 members of the crew in rising seas. The ship sent out an SOS for six hours, but the radio was ineffectual- , , , The vessel, which has its back broken, is in imminent danger of sinking. The steamer’s sides aie buckled and oil is pouring out of the engines, which have lifted from then’ beds. • " tt -4 The ship was carrying United States Army trucks, gun carriages, and tractors for the Occupation Forces.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 September 1946, Page 4
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