SLOOP’S DESPERATE PLIGHT
BECALMED IN CARRIBEAN SEA. AID BY PASSING STEAMER. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Brisbane, May 30. Captain Fuller, of the steamer Canadian Scottish, when the vessel arrived at Brisbane, told of how’ when seven days out from Halifax the sloop Golden City was sighted off Turk’s Island, in the. Carribean Sea, flying distress signals.. . The sloop had been becalmed for afortnight, and her food and water werei exhausted. The crew of 20, who were in a desperate plight, were given supplies* and the Canadian Scottish proceeded on her journey.
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 June 1934, Page 11
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