SAVED BY OLD CAR
SEA VOYAGERS’ ORDEAL IN SINKING SHIP HAIR-RAISING STRUGGLE Becd. Noon. HAVANA, Sunday. Aa ancient generator and battery 11 an old Ford car saved the lives of ol Sht passengers and 26 of the crew ***6 steamer Santa Anna, which reac hed port, towed behind the thol Chief, after a hair-raising ° rug ** e with the waves, which 'fat*' 6 '* t * le seams aa< i sent the sea tor over the engine-room floor, b,, ,- pumps were started on Deceni- **• After three days’ battering, , ‘ steam available had been -ran J nto Pumping, but the water th^? Ua i y S a >ned as the ship wallowed ™ Bh the sea. atd tt, radi ° senera tor refused to work. ship’s company was faced a a foundering. then thought of the oldh- ntotor-car stored below. The car 1 oil Stnppe< i °f its battery and spark s 0 within half an hour their « as answered by the steamer tort _ l i-'hief, which towed them to
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 858, 30 December 1929, Page 9
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