A Ship Wrecked.
CIRiEW AFLO3IT ON A RAFI
RESCUE© INI iAiN! .EXHAUSTED
CONDITION.
LUMBER VESSEL WRECKED IN
NORTH PACIFIC.
(Per Unite 4 Press Association-)
(Received 13th, 12.27 a.m.)
LONDON, January 17
The ship Braicore, .bound from Hastings Mills, Canada^ to 'Adelaide, with a, cargo of timber, effected the rescue _at sea of a. shipwrecked' crew.
Tttie look-out noticed a, raft floating in this open sea iti latitude 47 north, lomgitud© 128 west', in th,e Pacific Obean, off tho western, coast of the United States.
The ship boreTdown on the raft, which was 1 found to contain sixteen members of tho shipwreck crew of the American, lumber vessel Great Admiral.
Boats wore lowered, .and the crew _pf the Bareore succeeded in rescuing the erew 1 of the wrecked vessel.
They arrived none too siO'on, the occupants, of the raft being in an exhausted condition! owing to exposure and lack of food.
Tho men were well looked after on the Barcore, and were subsequently transferred to a passing 'bartpe, and landed in Atnericai-
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Thames Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 10195, 18 January 1907, Page 2
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