SPANISH STEAMER SUNK

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20800, 20 August 1929, Page 9

SPANISH STEAMER SUNK

COLLISION WITH A TUG. EIGHTEEN OF CREW MISSING. NO TIME TO LAUNCH BOATS. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) J LONDON, August 18. Pour officers and fourteen men are missing as the result of a collision 30 miles from the mouth of the Humber, in which a large ocean-going tug, the King’s Cross, collided amidships with the Spanish steamer Ogono and sank her in six minutes. The crew were unable to launch the boats and jumped overboard, except the steward, who climbed the after mast .and clung to the shrouds until another vessel rescued him. The King’s Cross stood by and picked up eight of the Ogono’s crew. The collier Starlight saved the ninth and a third vessel the tenth, and recovered the body of the wireless operator. The King’s Cross, the stem of which was badly buckled, brought the body and survivors to Grimsby. Ugaldo, the second mqte on the Ogono. the only officer saved, said he saw from the ridge the King’s Cross’s lights approaching and heard two siren blasts. The collision immediately followed. He and his shipmates clung to an overturned lifeboat until they were rescued.—Auatraian Press Association —United Service.