THRILLING RESCUE
PASSENGERS ADRIFT SHIP STRIKES ROCK PORT OF SPAIN (Trinidad), Dec. 11. Safe ashore after long hours adrift in tossing lifeboats, 12 passengers from the 2400-ton Norwegian steamer Vestvangen, to-day told a thrilling story of rescue, after the ship on Monday struck a hidden rock which tho captain said is not marked on the charts, otf the Trinidad coast.
For seven hours after S.O.S. went out, they drifted in a heavy eea. When the Vestvangen’s sister ship, Austvangen, finally arrived, they had to row five miles to reach her, as she feared to approach closer. , Two holes were torn in the vessel’s bow, and as she started to sink she was turned toward Mateto Point seven miles away, arid beached) a mile off the shore. Tlie crew js staying with the ship, which is in no immediate danger of breaking up, though it is taking a severe battering.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18579, 13 December 1934, Page 5
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