AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS
Rec-. 1. 7 p.m. Sydney, Nov. 16. Thirty Australian soldiers saved all 62 members o> tile crew of a HOOO-lon Allied ship winch ran aground in heavy seas qn the New South coast. Four of the Australians were drowned when they were washed off rocks. The rescue was made in May, but the news has just been released. The ship, driven by a storm, crashed into rocks, and waves 30 feet high lore away nearly all her lifeboats and battered pieces of the superstructure. Two Australian army officers risked their lives by swimming out to a lifebuoy thrown from the ship with a line attached and towing it ashore. The Australians, buffeted by the waves, then stood on slippery * rocks, holding the rope taut so that members of the crew could slide along it in a bosun’s chaii. As the last rescue of the day was being attempted, a great wave swept seven soldiers out to sea and four w'ere drowned. The ship later broke up and became a total loss.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 272, 17 November 1943, Page 5
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