Wedding Spread Feeds Wrecked Men
(Received 2 p.m.) LONDON, January 25.
Food prepared for a wedding party in a tiny crofter community was fed to shipwrecked Swedish seamen frptm the steamer Gothia (1823 tons), who had existed on biscuits, corned l?eef and water, after the torpedoing Qf their vessel. ' ' Eleven survivors reached an uninhabited island on the West Coast of Scotland several days in an open boat.
Three were seriously = injured, one having a broken leg and another a fractured spine. The lemainder were utterly exhausted.
Rescued by Youths
Four youths from a village miles away saw their light and launched a boat.
They found some of the Swedes in a hut, and others, too tired to get out. still in the boat.
The rescuers put them all in their boat and towed it to a village where, despite the early hour, the crofters in a hamlet of eight families welcomed the survivors.
They gave them food intended for a local wedding breakfast. A search is proceeding for the Gothia’s other lifeboat, containing 10 of the crew.
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Northern Advocate, 26 January 1940, Page 5
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