WRECK OF NORWICH CITY
TERRIBLE ORDEAL OF SURVIVORS. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Sydney, Dec. 17. Twelve survivors, including Captain Hamer, of the wrecked steamer Norwich City arrived in Sydney by the Lincoln Ellsworth. During their four days on Gardener Island the horrors of hordes of vicious, poisonous bats and huge land crabs, with pincers eight inches long, together with the lack of food, made the ordeal almost unbearable. After the explosion Captain Hamer was thrown into the surf and given up for lost, but he miraculously found his way ashore. One survivor said: “There were sharks everywhere. I saw some of our men in the water, fighting hopelessly. Their bodies were washed ashore later, horribly mutilated.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 December 1929, Page 13
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