SHIP'S TERRIBLE VOYAGE.
ICEBERGS IN ATLANTIC.
AN EMACIATED CREW.
RESCUE AFTER LONG DRIFT.
By TeleffrsphPre*3 —Copyright. A. and N.Z. LONDON, April 11.
After three months' struggle in the ice-ridden region "of mid-Atlantic, the members of the crew of the British ship Rita M". Cltiett were brought to Ply- ! mouth. They narrate a remarkable story I of a fight with storms, cold,, and hunger jon a terrible voyage from Oporto. When nearing St. Johns the ship was driven back by a gale through numbers of huge icebergs. The crew, already suffering, were now in desperate straits, having practically no food, while the only water was melted • snow. Their lives were saved by the port wine and brandy carried for medicinal purposes. I With her rudder smashed, her sails | blown away, and her lifeboat useless, the ship drifted into the track of shipping, where the crew were rescued by the liner President Fillmore when the last hope had gone. The men were landed at Plymouth in a shocking condition; one weighed 801b. >■ instead of his normal 1601b.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18373, 13 April 1923, Page 7
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