SEA TRAGEDIES.
TWO SHIPS WRECKED. EXPERIENCES OF THE CREW. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. LONDON, Jan. 23. Eight persons perished in the wreck of the oil tanker Red Line in a hurricane off the Cornish coast. Hector Durragh, the mate, was the sole, survivor, and he was landed at Swansea. He said the ship was swept by seas and filled rapidly. The slnp was sinking, when rociiets drew the attention of the Swansea trader Therese. The< crew stood to their posts until the captain shouted: “Abandon the ship. Every man for himself.” The Red Line was then at an angle cf sixty degrees. . The crew . with life-belts dived and made lor the Therese, but only Durragh reached her. sank as a searchlight was thrown on his face. The crew of the trawler Ulster had a dreadful experience, being wreeked at the foot of a sixty foot cliff on the coast of Kincardinessliire. Six were dashed to death against the rocks. Two climbed the cliff, their feet and legs being dreadfully torn. They summoned a coastguard, who rescued a battered sexagenarian sailor hv means of ropes:
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 26 January 1925, Page 5
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