THE SEA’S FURY
LOSS OF THE LARISTAN GERMAN SAILORS SHARE IN HONOURS BRITISH FREIGHTER FOUNDERS By Telegraph—Per Press Assn.—Copyright. LONDON, Feb. 1. Another thrilling spa story was told by Captain Wurpts, of the North German Lloyd liner Bremen, on arrival at Queenstown, where he was civieally welcomed for his heroic attempts to rescue the crew of the British freighter Laristan. which foundered in mid-At-lantie on January 27 in the same storm that encountered by the Antinoe. Th'' Bremen stood by for twenty-four hours in blinding hail and snowstorms, unable to lower the boats. She threw lines, one of which the Laristan’s crow IUC'-eeded in fastening to a boat which was dragged to the Bremen. One of the ;even occupants was drowned. The Bremen stood by throughout the night, but at dawn the Laristan was invisible. and the sea was strewn with wreckage. Twenty-five were drowned.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19504, 3 February 1926, Page 7
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145THE SEA’S FURY Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19504, 3 February 1926, Page 7
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