STRANGE STORY OF THE SEA.
The captain of the German steamer Elmshorn, on that vessel's arrival in Melbourne last week, told how he had picked up at sea a French sailor, who had been clinging to a plank for 12 hours. Tho castaway said he was a member of the crew of the French steamer Elolibaks,. which had been wrecked while towing another steamer, the Liberia, to Marseilles. The Liberia rescued two passengers and 12 of the crew of the Elolibaks, but the sailor picked up by the Elmshorn drifted away on his plank.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14867, 19 December 1911, Page 8
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