CAST ADRIFT.
ELEVEN DAYS IN OPEN BOAT. PRIVATSQNS OF TORPEDOED CRE¥/, United Service. (Received August 23, 9 a.m.) LONDON, August 22. An American vessel picked up eleven members of the crew ef a Norwegian steamer six hundred miles from land. They had been in an open boat eleven days, and lived on crabs and rain water for eight days- They had neither oars nor sail. The boat capsized four times. Three were drowned and the provisions were lost. It appears that the submarine shelled the steamer at three miles range, and sank her with a bomb after the crew had left. The survivors were almost exhausted when picked up.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12404, 23 August 1918, Page 5
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