AN HEROIC OFFICER

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 87, 21 March 1931, Page 5

AN HEROIC OFFICER

'SAVES 56 LIVES

? WRECK IN FAR NORTH , PASSENGERS ASLEEP WHEN ;.' VESSEL GROUNDS i (Reed. 8.30 a.m.). ;■' Press Association. —Copyright. OSLO, March 20. Further details here of the wreck jshow that the second mate, whose gallantry resulted in saving 56 lives, was twice beaten back in an attempt. to reach the shore with a life-line. A young girl swam 100 yards in a boiling sea and saved herself. A five-year-old girl was swqpt from her father's arms and drowned, leaving a tiny shoe in his hand. The passengers were asleep when the Hera grounded. During a heavy stowstorm the steamer Hera, of 1,080 tons ran ashore at cliffs near Hammerfest, the northernmost town in Europe, and was pounded to pieces.