SHIPWRECKED MEN ENGULFED IN SEAS.
RESCUERS ARE BEATEN BACK BY HUGE WAVES. (United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received April 1; 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, March 31. Seven men lashed to the rigging of the trawler Bendoran, which went ashore at Skerrie’s Rook, in the Shetland Isles, watched the trawler Aurora approach within a quarter cA a mile and then be beaten back by the mountainous seas which were breaking over the sunken reefs. A fishing boat, manned by volunteer rescuers, made a gallant effort to get a line aboard the Bendoran, but it also was driven off. Heroic rescue attempts continued for thirty hours. Two of the shipwrecked men were washed away, and later trawlers reported that the Bendoran had broken up and disappeared. It is feared that all aboard perished.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19034, 1 April 1930, Page 1
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