SOLE SURVIVOR
COLLIER FOUNDERS OFF IRISH COAST SIXTEEN BELIEVED DEAD l; (Rec. 10.20 a.m.) ' LONDON, Feb. 13. A collier named Ary foundered last Saturday on the way from Glamorgan to Eire, and 16 of the 17 j members of the crew are believed ito be dead. The sole survivor, in a state of collapse, crawled up a cliff at Minehead and told the story of a lifeboat’s battle against the gale and how, one by one, his shipmates died. The survivor, Jan Bouski, a 191 year-old Pole, who was washed ' ashore in one of the ship’s lifeboats at Minehead, on the Waterford coast, 1 arrived at a farm on the cliff top and [ was taken to hospital in a state of ' collapse. He was badly frost-bitten and semi-conscious. During the night morphia injections were necessary- . „ , , Mouski said the collier foundered when nearing Waterford. He and eight of the crew got into a lifeboat and the others got into another boat. One by one the eight died and were buried at sea until he alone remained. He did not know what had become of the other boat.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 14 February 1947, Page 5
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