ADRIFT IN ARCTIC
CREW OF RUSSIAN SHIP TERRIBLE SUFFERINGS. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) Oslo, May 8. A Norwegian sealer rescued three survivors of the Soviet steamer Rouslan from a drifting lifeboat. Their legs were frozen, necessitating amputation. The boat originally carried five. The engineer died following days of suffering from the terrible cold, the temperature being four degrees below zero. The captain suggested that suicide was preferable to slow freezing to death. The crew refused, but the captain shot himself. The boat then drifted until the survivors were found unconscious. “Farewell everybody; we are sinking” was the last wireless message from the Soviet salvage steamer Rouslan, which foundered with her crew of 23 off South Cape, Spitzbergen, where she had been stranded in packice for two months. A little Russian colony at Barentzburg heard the wireless, and despatched assistance, but the signals ceased on April 26, and a search proved fruitless.
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Southland Times, Issue 22011, 10 May 1933, Page 5
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