STEAMERS COLLIDE.

Wairarapa Age, 20 August 1929, Page 5

STEAMERS COLLIDE.

SPANISH VESSEL SINKS IN SIX MINUTES. FOUR OFFICERS AND JtuURTELI. MEN MISSING. 1 DISASTER NEAR THE HUMBER. United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. LONDON, August 18. Four officers and fourteen men are missing as the result of a collision thirty miles from the mouth of the Humber, in -which a large ocean-going tug, King’s Cross, collided amidships with the Spanish steamer Ogono and sank her in six minutes. The crew were unable to launch the boats and jumped overboard, except the steward who climbed the after-mast and clung to the shrouds until another vessel rescued him. The King’s Gross stood by and picked up eight of Ongono’s crew. The collier Starlight saved the ninth, a third vessel the tenth, and also recovered the bdoy of the Ogono’s wireless operator. The King’s Cross, whose stem was badly buckled, brought the body and the survivors to Grimsby. Ugaldo, second, mate of the Ogono, was the only officer saved. He said he saw from the bridge the King’s Cross’s lights approaching. He heard two syrens blasts and a collision immediately followed. Ugaldo and five shipmates clung to the overturned lifeboat until they were rescued. — (Australian Press Association—United Service.