SHIPS STAND BY SINKING FREIGHTER, UNABLE TO HELP.
ROUGH SEAS PREVENT LAUNCHING OF BOATS. (Received December 10, 11.5 a.m.) NEW YORK, December 9. The liner France sent a radio message stating that owing to heavy seas and head winds it was unable to render aid to the British freighter Volumnia, and was proceeding to New York, leaving the sinking ship and crew in mid-ocean, with two cargo boats standing by unable to help. The France’s brief message said that she received the Volumnia’s S O-S. on Sunday and went to her assistance, but the sea was too rough for lifeboats to live. After a radio conference with the Volumnia and the two unnamed cargo boats, it was decided, since the France carried mails and passengers, that she should proceed; The Volumnia left Wales for Philadelphia and Boston on November 15, but was disabled the same day, and put back to Falmouth, from where she departed on November 18.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18940, 10 December 1929, Page 1
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