HERO OF THE SEA.
DARING ACT
i SAVES HIS CREW
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received Oct. 1, 2.45 run. LONDON, Sept. 30. Commander Frank Worsley is the hero of a thrilling wreck. The auxiliary motor schooner Katherine Annie was swept by a gal© in the. Orkneys. Despite the darkness and the raging seas Commander Worsley, who was commander of the schooner, jumped with a. rop© from the bowsprit and struggled to the shore. He enabled the whole crew to be saved just in the nick’ of time, as the schooner broke up rapidly.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 1 October 1924, Page 9
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92HERO OF THE SEA. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 1 October 1924, Page 9
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