SEAMAN OVERBOARD
ATTACKED BY ALBATROSS ORDEAL IN INDIAN OCEAN [from our own correspondent] SYDNEY. Dec. 17 To swim frantically after a ship from which he had fallen, and at the same time strike desperately at an albatross which tried to attack' him several times, was the ordeal of George McMillan, aged 24, a sailor on the Empire Star, which arrived in Sydney this week. , McMillan fell from the ship in the Indian Ocean 011 November 13. The commander, Captain Capors, saw him fall, and his promptness in stopping the engines saved McMillan s life. "I was being swept along the side of the ship to the propellers and would have been drawn into them but for the stopping of the engines," said McMillan. He had begun to swim when a huge albatross, estimated to be 14ft. across its wings, swooped toward him and hovered about a foot above his head. "Several times it made to attack nie,'' he said. "I was exhausted when one of th® rescue party in a ship's boat drew a revolver and shot it."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22922, 28 December 1937, Page 15
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