ADRIFT IN A BOAT.
AN UNSEAWORTHY VESSEL.
abandoned" and burned:
LINER "PICKS UP CREW.
[BX 5 .TBLEORAPH.-^PRESS 'ASSOCIATION.] ]■; WELLINGTON. Tuesday. The Arawa, which arrived to-day from Southampton, picked up in the Atlantic on October 15 the crew of Bailing vessel Jean Dundoriald' Duff, which had sailed from Glasgow for New Zealand. They had been forced to 'jabandon 5 , the vessel, "•: which had become unseaworthy and [L. had ■ set \ fire . to her ■ before leaving her. :;: : ,-' ' ■ ' '•- : 4':-- >' ;' " > The crew had taken 20 days in -a boat to reach., a point which; is one day's ; sailing for a steamer. ". They were in fair health ' when picked up. r :vn They were handed over ; to the u care of; the . consul at : Colon. ' ' ''"'■: .".•'.' ; The Jean Dundonald Duff was a:wooden three-masted schooner of 404 tons, and was owned by Baine, Johnstone and , Co., Ltd., of St., John's, Newfoundland. She was built in 1917. •' '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18562, 21 November 1923, Page 10
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