TALE OF A STORM
RESCUE OF FISHERMEN. Xll- their lives the Grimsby fishermen will remember with gratitude the crew of the Iceland trawler Garda. During a storm last winter the Grimsby trawler MacLeay was wrecked near Mio Fjord. The Garda made a gallant attempt to rescue the shipwrecked men from seaward, but failed. But the crew wruld not leave their comrades of the sea to drown. They tried another way. Leaving the wreck they sailed up the fjord and as they went they prepared a home-made breeches buoy. They hunted for a good landing-place, then hauled the buoy six miles overland and brought all the shipwrecked men to safety. Probably they thought little more about it, but in a Board of Trade Report which has been lately issued the judges praised the reSourcefulness of the Garda’s crew, and their admiration for the Icelanders will be shared by .all who read the story. .
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 August 1935, Page 18 (Supplement)
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