EVENTFUL VOYAGE

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 134, 7 May 1928, Page 7

EVENTFUL VOYAGE

SCHOONER SPRINGS LEAK. WEATHERS TERRIFIC GALE. “VESSEL THAT ALWAYS COMES HOME.” (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph —Co py right.) (United Service.) Received May 7 ,11.5 a.m. HONOLULU, May 6. . The four-masted schooner Ella A. arrived here, with seven feet of water in her holds, after a desperate run of 148 days from Newcastle with coal for Callao (the port of Lima, Peru). Forty days from the Australian port she sprang a leak in a terrific gale. One man was lost overboard. The galley was swamped and the food spoiled. Potatoes were the only provisions left when she arrived. The Ella A has a crew of 10 and is known as the “vessel that always comes home.”

BACCHUS MAKES PORT

‘FOG LIKE PEA SOUP.”

LONDON, May 5.

The British. naval store-carrier Bacchus, which was damaged .after ramming and sinking the Greek steamer loannis Fafalios, has arrived at Portland, off Dorset. Apparently the Greek steamer sank in three minutes. Ten Greeks were drowned, including the captain and the chief officer. Two others died after rescued at sea. The owners say that twenty-two were on board the vessel. - ' The destroyer Salmon towed three lifeboats and a dinghy into Portland, with forty-five members of the crews of both vessels? “The fog in the Channel was like jiea soup,” states a sailor who was aboard the Bacchus. “Before wo knew it wo had rammed the Fafalios amidships. Slio was loaded with iron ore and sank in less than two minutes. The crew on deck were flung into the water. The remainder below had no chance. _ The captain and mate died from injuries due to the collision.” *

Among those drowned from the steamer Fafalios were five brothers, also two nephews of the owner.

PORT PROPELLER LOST.

(United Service.) LONDON, May 5

The liner Cormorin has arrived at Plymouth. She lost her port propeller on the night of May 1, after leaving Gibraltar. The ship trembled from stem to stern.

The majority of the passengers were asleep, and there was no panic. ' The journey was resumed under power o f the starboard engine. The vessel, though crippled, covered 300 miles a day across,, the Bay of Biscay. Two hundred passengers disembarked, including Sir Ton. Bridges. VESSEL ABANDONED. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, May 7. A navigation warning received b v the secretary of the General Post Office says that the following message was broadcast by Brisbane radio at 11.20 p.m. on the 6th hist: “Nautilus abandoned in a sinking condition off Bustard Head (Queensland) bearing N.N.W., distant 5 miles.