TRAGEDY OF THE SEA

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 33, 9 February 1929, Page 5

TRAGEDY OF THE SEA

SIX MEN MISSING i• , ■* ‘ ; ■ , MEN TRAPPED IN BUNKS. SMALL COLLIER SINKS NEAR SYDNEY HEADS. SYDNEY, February 8. The small collier Annie Miller foundered at 7.45 to-night six miles south-south-west of Sydney Heads. The- pilot vessel Captain Cook picked up six of the crew who were being tossed on an angry sea in a lifeboat. Six others are- missing, . and the search is continuing fo-night. SANK WITHIN EIGHT MINUTES. , .(Received 11.20 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Th© vessel, according to surv’.vors stories, capsized and ~ sank within eight minutes. One man was in his hunk when he was, thrown out on to 1 th© deck and then plunged into the wafer.: He was later picked up by a boat. Th© six men in the 'boat were almost exhausted when rescued by a pilot steamer. fThey told graphic stories of. thei,r experience. The “Captain Cook’’ and two other steamers searched for the six missing men until' an early hour! without avail, j , ■ I It is now thought that some of those missing were trapped! in tlies'r bunks and drowned before they could reach the deck.

The names of the men believed t o i be drowned are: Captain Pilling, John ' Wilson, E. Rower.a, Andrew 4 Anderson, H. Andrews and P-. Brennan. —Australian Press Assn.