PERILS OF THE SEA.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 644, 1 March 1923, Page 5

PERILS OF THE SEA.

VESSEL LOST IN COLLISION. PORTION OF GREW MISSING. By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received March 1, 8.45 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 28. A trawler lauded at Lowestoft six members of the crew of the steamer Echo, who were rescued after they had been 14 hours adrift in an open boat in the North Sea. They had only a tin of biscuits and a cask of water, They baled continuously because of the raging seas and'were exhausted when rescued. The Echo, which was bound from Hamburg to England, ooilidod in a thick fog with a steamer near Heligoland. Twelve members of the orew, including tho captain and mate, are missing. They were lost seen launching a boat.*—A. and N.Z. cable. WILD WEATHER IN BRITAIN. SEVERAL WRECKS REPORTED. i LONDON, Feb. 28. Gales blowing 70 miles an hour are raging in many districts in Britain. Even the Cunarder Berengaris is storm-bound oft the Isle of Wight. A number of wrecks are reported, t Rivers aro, running torront-liko in Wales and Yorkshire. Three sailers and two steamers are missing from South Wales ports,—A. and N-Z. cable.