AFLOAT ALONE IN A TUG

Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 452, 13 January 1914, Page 7

AFLOAT ALONE IN A TUG

Captain Kite, of Liverpool, had a remarkable experience m the English Channel on the tug Nana. The Nana, after various delays at many ports around the South Coast owing to the weather, left Falmouth on November 21 for Rio Galijos, South America. Temporary bulwarks had been provided, and it was thought would suffice for the voyage, but between then and 11 o'clock on Friday night the seas Hooded the tug's deck, and she took a nasty list. To relieve her and get her on an even keel, Captain Kite ordered a lifeboat to be launched and towed astern. Whilst this was being done the line securing the boat to the tug parted, and the lifeboat dropped astern. When the men got the canvas coverings off the boat and the lashings off the oars the tug could no longer be seen. The men were rescued by the P. and O. steamer China. The Nana was found off Guernsey by the E Russ, a German steamer. Captain Kite was m an exhausted condition, having had no sleep and little to eat for three days. He had been unable to keep the fires m, and the tug was at the mercy of the waves.