EPIC OF THE SEA
HEROIC RESCUE IN STORM. NEW YORK, March 29. The first details of the rescue in midAtlantic of the crew from the Canadian wooden schooner General Smuts (193 tons) were revealed on the arrival here of the Holland-Amerioan liner Volendatn (15,434 tons), which made the rescue in heavy seas on March 4, subsequently landing the half-starved sailors at Plymouth. With her sails gone, the rudder smashed, and her lifeboats washed away, the schooner drifted for three weeks, Tie crew having to subsist on a few biscuits and a little rain water. The Vclendam was attracted by the burning of two oilsbtns, but the schooner’s crew were so weak that they were unable to swim to the lifeboat sent from the Volendam, which battled with huge waves for half an hour before rescuing them all. The captain of the schooner set the vessel on fire as his last act, to prevent it becoming a danger to navigation.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19761, 12 April 1926, Page 10
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159EPIC OF THE SEA Otago Daily Times, Issue 19761, 12 April 1926, Page 10
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