SOLE SURVIVOR
DESCRIBES HOW SHIP SANK ‘ OWN ‘MIRACULOUS ESCAPE (tJmied Press Association—By Electric telegraph—CopywVight.) Otecefved'clay at 1.30 p.ip.) ® " London, November 18, . ‘ Fritz'RofetKke, the sole survivor, of the German ship Isis, which sank during the recent Ataintic storm, jamJ itied’ himself in the bottom of a waterlogged twelve hours until*, he was rescued by the Western!and. * In the/ sick-bay in which he was interviewed at .SsouthHalnpton, ho sa.icL the boat wherein he and a few* shipmates escaped, capsized, but lie scrambled' back into the lifeboat with the chief steward a s a wave righted it, hut his companion was drowned when the boat again capsized. A third wave righted it again. Roethke told how the commander of the Isis, in a tearing gale, mustered the crew on the boat deck on Sunday evening after the seas had smashed the hatch" and filled the forehold. He said *, if the bulkhead between the foreliola and the next hold lasted, the ship might float until the morning, but two hours later the seas smashed the bulkhead.
The vessel listed heavily, and later plunged to the bottom, .
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 November 1936, Page 6
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