NORWICH CITY SURVIVORS TELL OF THEIR ORDEAL.
VICIOUS RATS AND HUGE LAND CRABS ADD TO SHIPWRECK HORRORS. (United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received December 17, 12.5 p.m.) SYDNEY, December 17. The twelve survivors, including Captain Hamer, of the wrecked steamer Norwich City, arrived in Sydney by the Lincoln Ellsworth. During their four days on Gardner Island, hordes of vicious and poisonous rats and huge land crabs, with pincers eight inches long, together with the lack of food, made their ordeal almost unbearable. After the explosion Captain Hamer was thrown into the surf and was given up for lost, but he miraculously found his way ashore. One survivor said: “There were sharks everywhere. I saw some of our men in the water fighting hopelessly. Their bodies were ashore later, horribly mutilated.’’
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18946, 17 December 1929, Page 9
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