SURVIVOR’S STORY
COLLISION AT SEA. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, Nov. 19. In bed, amid hot water bottles at Lowestoft Hospital, Samuel Mortishire, the sole survivor of the herring drifter Reclaim, told in whispers of how the Hurunui, 200 times her size, collided, bisected and sank her immediately. The Hurunui towored out of a rain squall when the drifter’s skipper and mate were in the wheel home, and the crew below decks. They died within sight of home. Mortishire was the only hand on deck. Ho dropped .a bucket and yelled unthinkingly: “Come up and see the fun,” which is customary when anything unusual is happening. Then realising the situation lie took a deen breath and dived over the port side as the steamer drove knifelike through tho drifter. He clung to a piece of wreckage and was unconscious when he was picked up by the drifter. The skipper said th« swift lowering of the boat from the Hurunui was the finest piece of seamanship he had ever seen.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 303, 22 November 1937, Page 11
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