RESCUE OF A SHIP'S CREW,

Grey River Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5558, 28 July 1886, Page 2

RESCUE OF A SHIP'S CREW,

TERRIBLE SUFFERINGS.

The American Line steamer British Princess, from Philadelphia, arrived at Queenstown on May 12, having on board the captain and crew of the schooner Mary, Queen of the Seas, who were rescued, wounded a&d exhausted from their sinking and disabled vessel, on May 3rd, in latitude 41*20 north, longitude 45 west, by a boat's crew from the steamer. The schooner was bound from Barbadoes to St. John's with rum and molasses, and experienced a terrible gale on the 28th ult., which tore away the rudder and left an immense hole in the vessel's quarter, through which the water poured into the cabin and hold, leaving the craft quite disabled. The captain and the crew were at the pumps three days and night trying to keep the ship afloat, but the water continued to increase despite their efforts. Consequently, exhausted and famished, they left the pumps and decided to throw overboard the cargo to lighten the vessel in order to save her. Theicook, named James Raulsonpof Greenock-,- went into the hold. for this purpose, but having incautiously struck a match the rum became ignited, and soon the entire cargo was in flames. He escaped tp the deck badly burned, as also were; the others. This fresh disaster almost 'drove them mad, b"ut they fought the flames^and subdued them after several hours work.

Their condition was then desperata. Exhausted, hungry, and wounded, with the Beas sweeping orer them$ Vl tiiey resigned themselves to death, when, most providentially, the British Princess hove in sight, and through the splendid courageof five of her seamen, the unfortunate crew were rescued. The passengers on the steamer presented a jgurse of sovereignsto the Treßcaers for their Bra Very.