WIRELESS MESSAGES
FRANTIC APPEALS FOR HELP (Received 13th November, 10.35 a.m.) NEW YORK, 12th November. The wireless operator on the Vestris sent an S.O.S. shortly after 10 o'clock this morning and continued frantic appeals for help for over three hours. The last message received was at 1.25 o'clock, bearing Caotain Carey's signature. It read: "We are now abandoning the ship. We are taking to the lifeboats." Further word stated that the passengers were first sent on the lifeboats, while the captain and a skeleton crew remained aboard the vessel until all hope was abandoned. A series of messages throughout the morning intimated tliati the wireless operator was holding his post, despite the fact that towards the end the vessel was likely to sink at any minute, but no word has yet been received as to the cause of the disaster. The vessel was bound to Buenos Ayres from New York.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 13 November 1928, Page 7
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