A GALLANT DEED.
FINE SEAMANSHIP SHOWN.
PERILOUS CIRCUMSTANCES.
(Received .11' a.m.)
SYDNEY, This Day.
With decks awash and only kept from sinking by her timber cargo the Inca's condition was extremely grave. The crew were huddled on the poi.-p and the captain "s wir'o and baby were saved from constant wetting by fixing a few boards on the top or" the gangway. two days of this the captuin ordered the crew with his wife and child aboard the lifeboat to seek for help. He with the donkeyman, named Ross, who refused to leave Oapvain Winther, lived till they were picked up and throughout .the tow in a small boat "at the stern of the Incsv which was then practically uri'ier water. The rescue by. the-Cosmos and the tow was a fine piece of seamanship.— A. andN.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 20 December 1920, Page 5
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136A GALLANT DEED. Northern Advocate, 20 December 1920, Page 5
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