HEROISM IN SEA OF ICE
FILM SHIP DISASTER. Behind the announcement that the King has conferred the Albert Medal for gallantry at sea on William George Johnson, an officer of the film ship Viking, lies an epic story of herism in the Arctic seas. The Viking, a wooden 586-ton twodecker, blew up at sea in Horse Bay, off the frozen Newfoundland coast, in March last year. After the explosion such of the crew as were still alive were able to get out on the ice. Then Johnson started for the land with about 20 men, hauling a small boat in which were the mate and a passenger, both seriously injured. The party hauled the boat through marshy ice until late afternoon of the next day. Then Johnson sent all but three men to Horse Islands for help. The next day dawned and still no help arrived. Then Johnson sent the three sound men toward land. Not until the next, day did a rescue party eventually arrive. Thriraghgut these three days John son was in the gravest peril. Any change of wind would have loosened the pack ice on which his life depended and swept it out to sea.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 143, 20 June 1932, Page 3
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