GALLANT RESCUE.
AIID-ATLANTIC EPIC. HALF-STARVED SAILORS. NEW YORK, Alarch 29. The first details of the rescue in mid-Atlantic of tho crew of six from tho Canadian wooden schooner General Smuts (193 tons) wero revealed on arrival hero of tne Holiand-Ame-rican liner Volcndam (15,434 tons), which made tho rescue in heavy seas on March 4, subsequently landing tho half-starved sailors at Plymouth.
With her sails gone, tho rudder smashed, and her lifeboats washed away, tlie schooner drifted for three weeks, the crew being reduced to a few biscuits and a little rain water. The Volendam was attracted by tho burning of two oilskins, but the schooner’s crew were so weak that they wero unable to swim to tho lifeboat sent from tho Volendam, which battled with huge waves for half an hour beforo rescuing them all. The captain of the schooner fired the vessel as his last act, to prevent it becoming a danger to navigation.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 109, 8 April 1926, Page 8
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155GALLANT RESCUE. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 109, 8 April 1926, Page 8
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