Captain Refuses Crew Leave To Abandon Ship, Which Founders With 16 Men.
STORM CAUSES MANY CASUALTIES AMONG SHIPPING IN EUROPEAN WATERS.
(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received November 27, 12.50 p.m.) LONDON, November 26. THE WEATHER in the North Sea is still most severe. Numerous casualties are reported, including a number of men who were washed overboard from ships. The captain of the Swedish steamer Garm, when the storm was raging and a lifeboat had arrived, refused the crew permission to leave the vessel. Suddenly the Garm foundered at the mouth of the Zuider Zee. One man leaped into the water and was rescued by the lifeboat, but sixteen were drowned. The French transport Cesaree sank during the storm off the Moroccan coast. Eighteen of the crew were drowned. Four were saved by vessels which answered a wireless S.O.S.—Australian Press Association.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18623, 27 November 1928, Page 11
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