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Survivors of Foundered Steamer TWO DEATHS: ONE A SUICIDE Terrible Privations in Intense Cold Press Association. —Copyright. Received Today, 1 p.m. Oslo, May 8. A Norwegian sealer rescued three of the survivors of the Rousaln drifting in a lifeboat. Their legs wore frozen, necessitating amputation. The boat originally carried five. An engineer died following a day's suffering in the terrible cold. The captain suggested that suicide was preferable to slow freezing to death. The crew refused but the captain shot himself. The boat drifted until the survivors were found unconscious. The Rousaln was a Soviet salvago steamer which foundered with a crew of 23 off South Cape, Spitzbergen, where it had been stranded in pack ice for two months.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 238, 9 May 1933, Page 5
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121FOUND UNCONSCIOUS Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 238, 9 May 1933, Page 5
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