DRAMATIC RESCUE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22457, 29 June 1936, Page 9

DRAMATIC RESCUE

TRAWLER IN DISTRESS

ROPE FOULS PROPELLER

VESSEL TOWED 150 MILES

(Received June 2S, 5.5 p.m.) SYDNEY, June 28

After facing disaster for three days in tremendous seas whipped lip by a cyclone on tho south coast of Australia, the trawler Bareamul, which was helpless, with a wire rope twisted round its propeller, reached Eden to-dav. The vessel was towed by another trawler, the Dtirraween. The rescuo vessel had rac?ed for 60 miles through high seas, and after picking up the disabled trawler towed her 150 miles, a journey which occupied more than two days. The Durraweon and tlie Bareamul are both owned by the same fishery concern. The Bareamul was trawling between Gabo Island and Babil Island when one of her wire ropes fouled the propeller and could not be removed.

MOTOR-SHIP STANFORD

CAPTAIN'S STORY OF WRECK

COASTAL REEF NEAR PERTH PERTH, Juno 27 A graphic story of the wreck of the motor-ship Stanford, on African Reef, on the coast of Western Australia, was given by her master, Captain Becli, who arrived at Fremantle to-day on the Koolinda with the other members of the crew and passengers. Captain Bech said the Stanford went on the reef at 9.40 p.m. on Wednesday. Heavy rain was falling and there was a dense haze which obscured Point Moore lighthouse. The sea was rough.

Efforts to move the ship astern failed. Every now and again she was lifted up and crashed down on the reef. All hands were called on deck and the lifeboats were prepared.

"After four hours of anxious waiting on the ship, which might have crumbled beneath us," said Captain Bech, "the Koolinda arrived. One boat was rowed off from the Stanford and another from .the Koolinda."

Captain Bech was the last man to leave. He took the ship's papers and the ship's cat and three kittens, but everything else was lost. He thinks the Stanford will become a total wreck.