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TRAWLER'S NARROW ESCAPE, " SAVED BY STANDARD HULL. ; In the dead of night, during a violent snowstorm v and gale, the steam trawler Bosedale * Wykd, of .Hull, drove. at >• fullspeed lately. on to .the uninhabited island ' of Bona, in the North Sea. • The impact flung the crew off their feel and made the vessel rebound on Her course.' She struck a second and a third time before the chief engineer could get on hie ' feet again and reverse the engines. • Expecting the vessel to. founder every ■ moment, the crew, rushed forward, but found that the trawler was still seaworthy. • The Rosedale Wyke is of the war-time type ,of standard : ship.'. These ships are not stiffened forward like other trawlers, and": her.' stem had flattened back instead of .fracturing. . ► Bona, an unlighted mass of rock, rises sheer tout of the water to the eastward of the Orkneys. '.. Only a little water got into the hull, and this .was kept back by - the collision bulkhead which was undamaged. Had the crew; been compelled to take to the boats their position would have been hopeless, as the heavy 3eas would have swept them on "to: the rocks. -- ' 1
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18711, 17 May 1924, Page 20 (Supplement)
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198FULL-SPEED INTO A BOOK. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18711, 17 May 1924, Page 20 (Supplement)
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