AN OCEAN RESCUE.
FROAI SHIP ON FIRE. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. AMSTERDAM, August 20. A wireless message from the Dutch steamer Hercules tells a thrilling story of the rescue of fortysix men, the crew and passengers of the four-masted American schooner Augusta G. Hilton. The schooner, en route from Bermuda to the Azores, six hundred miles southwest of the Azores, took fire. The Hercules was just in time to rescue all aboard before the schooner, burned to the water’s edge, sank.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12429, 23 August 1933, Page 5
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82AN OCEAN RESCUE. Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12429, 23 August 1933, Page 5
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