TRAGEDY OF LOST TRAWLER

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11435, 3 February 1923, Page 14

TRAGEDY OF LOST TRAWLER

TEN OF THE CREW FEARED TO HAVE) PERISHED. GRIMiSBY, December 6. News of the loss of the Grimsby trawler, Celerina, with 10 hands, 'has brought sorrow to the homes of the ill-fated crew, who. with one exception, live in Grimsby. Details of the disaster were conveyed to relatives, but these were only brief, the Consul at Vardoe, a town on an islet off the cost of Norway, wiring that the Celerina stranded there during a snowstorm and was totally wrecked, the hull being broken in two. Only two men wre saved. Tho others havg not yet been found.

Inquiries from the owners, Trawlers White Sea Company, show that the Celerina left Grimsby for the White Sea on November 25th for a fishing voyage. She carried a crew of 12, 11 of whom lived in Grimsby. The second engineer was a Hull man.

The last heard of the vessel by the owners ,ivas a message from the skipper on December 3rd, stating that he had safely arrived at Honisvaag, and that a rough passage in very heavy weather had been experienced. 1 The only two men known to have been saved a'le Edward St. Pierre, Albion street Grimsby, and Albert Topple, Hildyard street, Grimsby. The owners, however, still hold out hopes that more may have been saved. The Celerina was a modern vessel, built at Renfrew in 1913.