Clung To Capsized Ship For 4 Hours
BRISBANE, Eri. (11.50 a.m.) —Seven seamen clung for four hours in heavy seas to the overturned hull of a 270ton coastal shipr. The engineer, who was asleep in his cabin, was drowned when the vessel overturned in Moreton Bay. The ship, the Grazier, was loading shell in Moreton Bay when two bigwaves struck her port side.
As she lay over, water swamped her holds and she overturned within a few seconds.
Members of the crew dived into the sea and clung to the upturned hull, while Waves and spray swept over them until daylight. The crew of another ship loading shell in the bay then saw them, and sent dinghies to the rescue. All are' suffering from shock and exposure.
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Northern Advocate, 16 January 1948, Page 3
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