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17 MEN SPEND FIVE DAYS IN LIFEBOAT. SANTA CRUZ, June 18. Seventeen men, who spent five days ill a lifeboat after the Norwegian freighter Knut Hamsun was burned at sea, were brought here by a fishing smack which picked them up, hungry and almost naked. The Norwegian freighter Knut Hamsun (5272 tons), with a cargo of nitrate from Chile, for Newport News, caught fire, burned to the water’s edge and sank on the night of June 10, about 150 miles off the Nicaraguan coast, near Quitasuena bank. The conflagration spread so rapidly that the members of the crew were forced to take to the lifeboats without sending out an S.O.S. signal. A lifeboat containing the captain and sixteen members of the crew was rescued by the liner Zacapa on June 13. and the other lifeboat, containing the chief officer and sixteen men, was missing. __________
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19834, 25 June 1934, Page 13
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147RESCUED FROM SEA Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19834, 25 June 1934, Page 13
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