VOYAGE OF THE INCA.
A TERRIBLE ORDEAL
►SYDNEY, 'December 20. With her decks awash, and only kept from sinking by the timber cargo, the Inca's crew were huddled on the poop, and the captain's wife and baby saved from constant wetting by iixiiig a few boards on the" top of tilb gangway. After' two days of this, the captain ordered the Crew with his wife ancl. child aboard 1 ' tho lifeboat to seek help. He, with the donkeyman (Ross), who refused to leave Captain Whither, lived till picked up, and throughout tKe tow were in a small boat at the stern of the Inca, 'which was' then' practically under water. The Cosmos rescue and towing were a .fine, niece of seamanship. " '.'■"'
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Grey River Argus, 21 December 1920, Page 3
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121VOYAGE OF THE INCA. Grey River Argus, 21 December 1920, Page 3
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