NARROW ESCAPE AT SEA.
[by TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] New Plymouth, Monday. A strange accident happened on the steamer Gleuelg yesterday. When oil' Cape L'ginont James George Sinclair, steward, was standing on the poop when a heavy sea broke on board and carried him over the side. Fortunately, when Sinclair was ten or twelve yards from the vessel, the wave recoiled and placed him on board again on the foredeck, when lie caught hold of a rope, and saved himself from being taken overboard a second time. The escape was most miraculous, as the sea was too heavy for any small boat to live in it, and Sinclair would inevitably have been drowned. Tho force with which Sinclair went against the winch stunned him, and indicted a scalp wound from which the blood flowed profusely. The captain turned the steamer round, and landed the wounded man at the breakwater, when he was taken to the hospital. He is reported this morning to be progressing well towards recovery.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8320, 29 July 1890, Page 5
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