TRAWLER ON A REEF
MEN LASHED TO RIGGING. ATTEMPTS AT RESCUE FAIL. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, March 31. Seven men lashed to the rigging of the trawler Bendoran, which went ashore at Skerriesrcek (Shetland Isles), watched the trawler Aurora approach within a quarter of a mile and then beaten back by mountainous seas breaking over the sunken reefs. A fishing boat manned by volunteer rescuers made a gallant effort to get a line aboard, and was also driven off. Heroic rescue attempts continued for 30 hours. Two of the shipwrecked men were washed away, and later trawlers reported that the Bendoran had broken up and had disappeared. It is feared that all perished.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20991, 2 April 1930, Page 9
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