A TALE OF THE SEA.
THE STORY OF THE SURVIVORS. f/V»- /V.-.W J.'wt.(./.»« —*
Syo.N'.V. I'ec. 2S. The crew of the Carrick arrived lifter an inciting experience. The disaster was c; i H striking floating wreckage on Dc iiliu Kith. The vessel then began "> 1 ik badly, bat the inflow of wa. i w kept m check till the pump- became blocked. The captain refused to abandon the vessel until the 22nd, when there was over ten feet of witter in the hold. Thirteen of the crew got into the lifeboat and three into the gig. A choppy ciws sea was running and the gig foundered at midnight. The crew reached the lifeboat and scrambled aboard, but afterwards the gig was righted. The boats were leaking badly, am! were only kept afloat by constant bailing. The were terrible crumped and short of provisions, which were spoilt by salt water. They reached Eden greatly exhausted alter % perilous and plucky battle with the element', which ended on the evening of the 2tth.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 207, 29 December 1896, Page 3
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169A TALE OF THE SEA. Hastings Standard, Issue 207, 29 December 1896, Page 3
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