EIGHT PERISH, ONE BY ONE
ORDEAL OF SEAMEN ADRIFT ON RAH Recd. 8 p.m. London, Nov. 18. Eight seamen died on a raft off the Cornish coast’from hunger and exposure after the 800-ton Liverpool collier Sturdee Rose capsized on her way from Garston to Plymouth. Four survivors who landed at Cork on Friday said the ship suddenly lurched and turned over on November 13. Although the weather was fine when they took to a raft, it later became rough. They drifted toward the shore, but the wind veered and blew them out to sea. This recurred continually. In the ensuing eight days they were without food and water. Eight died, one by on£. Several ships passed without noticing them. A Canadian vessel eventually picked up the survivors.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 279, 26 November 1945, Page 5
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