HERO OF “TYPHOON CORNER.”

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 10 August 1925, Page 5

HERO OF “TYPHOON CORNER.”

COLLEAGUE SNATCHED FROM RAGING SEA.

LONDON, June 18. A graphic story of a fisherman’s bravery' at “Typhoon Corner,” that wild area in the North Atlantic, off Iceland, where wind and currents meet and where there is perpetual “dirty weather”—was told at Grimsby y-ester. day upon arrival of the steam drifter Honoria. . During a gale a heavy' sea broke aboard the ship and carried the mate Harry Lee, aged fifty-eight, over the stern.

While others of th© crew ran for life. 1 >elts and lines, a deck hand, Duncan Souter, aged twenty'-three, leapt overboa; d in the boiling sea. “It was magnificent but mad,” said Robert Sobey, one of the crew, describing the incident yesterday. “The chance of Sonter reaching the mate and of the pair being picked up in that gale was hundreds to one against, but Souter reached Lee, who had lost consciousness, and kept him afloat for nearlv twenty minutes, while (Skipper Harry Evans, handling the ship in masterly manner, brought her within fifty feet of them.

“Several of us flung lines, and I was lucky enough to land my line, with a grapnel attacked, between the two men, who, thus hooked, were drawn alongside and snatched from the sea. “Lee was apparently dead, but we cut his c'othing off him, applied artificial respiration, and massaged him. After two hoiiTs he moved, and in thirty hours he regained consciousness and We landed him in Iceland. “Souter was exhausted, but quickly rallied, and, after a change of clothing and a hot drink, helped us to try to revive Lee.”