OCEAN DRAMA
KESCUE OF A CEEW NORWEGIANS IN PERIL AMERICANS' TIMELY AID OIL SMOOTHS THE WATERS By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright NEW YORK, Dec. 20 A thrilling rescue at sea was recounted when the American freighter Schodack landed at New York 18 men and two women from the Norwegian freighter Smaragd. When she was 300 miles from Bermuda tho Smaragd, which had no wireless, attracted the Schodack's attention with flares and then Morse signalled an S.O.S. with an electric flashlight. A full gale was blowing and the Smaragd had to wait nil night until dawn, when the Schodack discharged 350 barrels of oil. This smoothed the waters sufficiently to enable a small boat to be launched from each vessel to make the rescue. One seaman lost two fingers in launching a boat, but no others were injured. The crew were virtually without food while they struggled at the pumps against a heavy inflow of water. The Smaragd sank an hour after the rescue.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23231, 28 December 1938, Page 9
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