IN SIX MINUTES

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 19 August 1929, Page 9

IN SIX MINUTES

LATE EDITION

STEAMER SINKS.

COLLISION WITH LARGE TUG. ELGHTBELN OF CIREW MISSING. v : „a«:U srrz** Association— ciwiin iciv. 6 iuyl Copyright.! United Service). Received 12.20 p.m. to-day. LONDON, Aug. IS. Four officers and fourteen men are nitssing as a result of a collision thirty niiiea from the mouth of the Humber, in which a large ocean-going tug. King’s Cross, "collided amidships wit-n the Spanish steamer, Ugono, and sank her in six minutes. The crew were unable to launch the boats and jumped ov'e.ilboard, except the steward, who climbed the aftermast and clung to the shrouds until another vessel rescued • him. The King’s Gross stood by and picked up eight of the Ggono\s crew, rhe collier Starlight the ninth and a third vessel the tenth. Lt also recovered thet body of the wireless operator. The King’s Cross, whose stem was badly buelded, brought, the ibody and the survivors to Grimsby. b’galdo, second mate on the Ogondo, who was the only officer saved, said lie saw from the bridge the approaching lights of the King’s Cross, and heard two syren blasts. The collision immediately followed and lie and five ...shipmates clung to an overturned lifeboat until rescued.