RESCUE IN MID-OCEAN.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11819, 2 May 1919, Page 2

RESCUE IN MID-OCEAN.

DOOMED STEAMER’S CREW. ~ The steamer Dongarra, which arrived at Sydney, from New York, via Panama, recently, was instrumental in saving the lives of the whole crew of an American steamer in the Atlantic while on her way to New York to load for Australia. On t»e voyage from the Azores to New York, the Dongarra experienced heavy weathe p , and a I”!? 11 sea was running on February 11, when a wireless call for help was picked up The SOS message came from the new American steamer Acoma _ On arrival at the scene the Dongarra found that the American stsamer, which was bound for New York lo Brest, bad been badly damaged by the heavy seas Her rudder had been earned away, and as it was then impossible to steer the vessel, she wbs at the mercy or the waves, which poured over her, flooding the engine-room and extinguishing the fires The also found its way into the bolds and by the time the Dongarra hove in sight she had settled down in the water, and her decks were awash The captain and his wife, together with the whole of tne members of the crew, numbering about 50 ifien, were all huddled up on the only dry portion of the vessel On the approach of the Dongarra portion of of the distressed crew took to their own boats, and pulled across to the rescuing steamer They were taken on board the Dongarra, and members of the crew of the latter vessel returned to the sinking steamer in the same boats,, and brought hack the remainder Everyone was safely transferred to the Dongarra, and the rescuers did not overlook a pet dog which was oi3 board Tha /Joogarra senfc out wireless warnings to other Vbssels regarding tue clanger to navigation which the derelict represented She then proceeded on, her way to New Yorii, where, sne lan Jed the rescued captain and crew