SHIP BROKEN IN TWO
MIRACULOUS RESCUE OF CREW TERRIFIC STORMS IN ATLANTIC FREIGHTER LOSES PROPELLERS i U P.A —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received 21st January, 1.0 p.m.) NEW YORK, 20th January. One ship was broken in two, another lost a propeller and several liners were badly battered by terrific midwinter storms in the Atlantic. The crew of thirty-seven were miraculously rescued from the oil tanker Jaguar which broken in two in MidAtlantic so suddenly that she was unable to flash a distress signal
The small freighter Duala, apparently nearby, wirelessed that she had picked up seven from the forecastle and thirty from the after section which remained floating despite tremendous seas. A coastguard cutter reached the freighter Black Condor, off Novia Scotia, helpless without propellers.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 21 January 1939, Page 6
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