THRILLING SEA STORY.
Blazing Steamer In Mid-ocean. RESCUE OF PASSENGERS AND CREW. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received July 27. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, July 26. A thrilling story was unfolded when the Rangitata docked at Southampton, with ten passengers, including two women and two children, and fifty-three of the crew’ of the German steamer “Targis.” A New Zealander (Mr W. Strict) told the interviewers that the Rangitata saw at nine in the morning, what seemed like a cloud on the horizon, but later discovered a pall of white smoke enveloping the Targis, from which flames were soon shooting upwards 60 feet, licking the masthead. The Rangitata picked up the passengers and crew, some of whom had burned hands, as the result of sliding dowm the ropes against the red hot hull. The German captain, Frasing, made a heroic return to the Targis, on the humane mission of shooting a pig, which had been left in the deckhouse. Captain Hunter said he had never seen such a blaze. The heat was uncomfortable. even at a distance at which the Rangitata hove too.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18630, 28 July 1930, Page 9
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181THRILLING SEA STORY. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18630, 28 July 1930, Page 9
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