ADRIFT IN LIFEBOATS
GRAVE PERILS SURVIVED. VESSEL SINKS AT SEA. Press Association —By Telegraph —Copyright, LONDON, June 5. (Received June 6, at 5.5 p.m.) The Daily Express states that Captain Harry Mack, an Australian, related a thrilling wreck story in Londonderry. He said that the ship Reliant of 1000 tons bound for New York from Grimsby sprang a leak and foundered. He and the crew after seeing the Reliant overheel and sink spent four days and five nights in a lifeboat, encountering tempestuous seas until a trawler towed them to the Irish coast. —A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19500, 8 June 1925, Page 7
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