STORM AT SEA

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17954, 5 December 1932, Page 3

STORM AT SEA

ITALIAN STEAMER LOST CREW OF 33 RESCUED I4FFDOAT CREW’S GOOD WORK. LONDON, Oct:. 17. Twenty-nine of the crew of the Italian cargo steamer Monte Nevoso, which stranded, on Fyiday on, the Uaisbro’ Sand, off th,e Norfolk coast, were taken off on Saturday by the Cromer lifyboat and, landed at Qjorleston. Captain Solvatbre, the chief officer, chief engineer, and wireless operator however, to leave tlielr vessel. When the lifeboat reiurne.d to Rye syene yesterday it was found that the Monte Neyuwo had broken up. The four missing men, it was discovered later, had left in one of the ship’s boats a,t about 9 pun,, and after drifting about, were sighted early yesterday by the rooter-smack Gleam, of Lowestoft, and towed to that poi;t.

The Monte Nevoso, a vessel of 584,3 tons, owned by the S.A. Cooperative “Garibaldi,” was bound from Rosario to Hull With a cargo of grain. When she stranded on Friday the, Cromer lifeboat, in charge of Coxswain Henry JBlogg, the only “Double V.C.” of the lifeboat service, put out. She remained by the ship all day and all night, and eventually landed the 29 men at QpfLeston, being unable owing to the heavy seas and strong northerly wind to land at Cromer.

The Hull tug Seaman and the Dutch tug Noordzee stood by the Monte Nevoso, with the four officers who refused to leave her. The lifeboat put out again in the teeth of a gale at <i o’clock yesterday morning to find that the vessel had gone to pieces and that the tugs had also left the scene. When she had returned to Gorlcston the crow had completed 00. hours’ service to the steamer, during, 16 of which a gale had been blowing.. The lifeboat made three trips to the sands’ in the week, making a total of 77 hours at sea. When the lifeboat returned to Cromer the crew were greeted, with cheers by large crowds and a peal of the church hells. They brought with them a dog rescued from the Monte Nevoso. BOAT SUNK IN CHANNEL.

The steamer Braedale, of Newcastle, foundered in the Channel about 2 a.m yesterday, spine . eight , miles southwest of the Needles. As she filled with water she took op a heavy list, and the crew of eight,yould launch only one boat, the smallest. There was a storm of wind blowing and a,heavy sea running, but the men kept on rowing all through the night and yesterday morning, until lifter over 10 hours they made port at Rrighstone (1.W.).

STEAMER SINKS IN IRISH SEA ERASING BLANKETS AS SIGNALS FLEETWOOD, Oct. 13. The Ayr cargo steamer Girl May sprang a leak and sank in rough weather in the Irish Sea last, night while taking coal from Ayr to Salcombe. When all other signals to attract attention had failed, the crew of seven soaked the blankets from their bunks with paraffin, set fire to them, and hoisted them to the masthead. The flames were seen by, the Fleetwood steam trawler Peter Lovett, which hastened to the spot. At great risk the crew,of the Girl, May were all rescued, hut they lost, all their belongings with the exception of one gramophone. An attempt was made to fow the Girl May, but it had to he abandoned.