SAVED FROM SUNKEN SHIP
A seaman, Captain Jones, of Anglesey, stood on the bridge of the steamship Orchis recently, two hours out of the Cornish port of Par. He was three miles off Pencarrow Point. Suddenly, from the engine room, camo an urgent warning—"The ship's sinking." <
The aft part of the engine room had sprung a leak. The water was rising every second. The captain gave the order —"Man the boat."
The nine men of the crew sprang to it without stopping to take any clothes or belongings. In five minutes the ship had sunk. The men in the boat, some of them in their singlets, were tossed and drenched in the heavy seas. The coastguards at Polruan saw the ship in distress, and the Fowey lifeboat put off. But a Mevagissey fishing boat found the battered boat and took the men on board.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22320, 18 January 1936, Page 2 (Supplement)
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