TWO SHIPS IN PERIL

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12356, 28 January 1926, Page 5

TWO SHIPS IN PERIL

JERRIFIC STORM IN ATLANTIC LINERS RUSHING TO GIVE HELP JEAS FIFTY FEET HIGH Reuter's Telegram. NEW. YORK, January 26. The lives of at least 60 seamen are in jeopardy on two steamships battling in mid-ooean against one of the worst storms ever encountered in the Atlantic. } The liner President Roosevelt, which lest two seamen when a rescue party made an unsuccessful attempt to Board the British freighter Antinoe, 13 standing by to aid the crew of 25, while the liner Bremen, is hastening to help the distressed British fieighter Laris* tan. International radio broadcasting officials, whose attempts to reach # Europe were marred the last two nights by the S.O.S. signals of the distressed ships, will make another effort topignt. fSIX MEN SAVED TWENTY-FOUR STILL ABOARD. (Received January 27, 5.5 p.m.) HALIFAX, January 26. Six men have been saved oy the German steamer Bremen from the disabled British freighter Laristan, which since Monday night has been lying in ft raenner sea off the port. Twentyfour men are still aboard. helplesTinraging SEA RESCUE LIFEBOAT CRUSHED Australian and N.Z: Cable Association. (Received January 27, 8.55 p.m.) NEW YORK., January 26. The seas are reported to be rolling 60 feet high in imd-Atlantic. Various big liners, including the Leviathan and the Aquitania, have been delayed two or three days. , The President Roosevelt, which is standing by the British freighter Antinoe, lost sight of her behind a curtain of snow. A new message came later from the Roosevelt stating that she hail again sighted the Antinoe, which is entirely disabled, with her engines not working, ana her lights, except hand-lant-erns, extinguished. The Roosevelt made a gallant effort to remove the <rew, launching a lifeboat in the raging sea. A wave crushed it against the liner’s sides, and two sailors were drowned. The rescue efforts had to be temporarily abandoned, but the latest report is that the Antinoe is still afloat, | and thv Roosevelt is still standing by, where she has been since Sunday.