REMARKABLE ESCAPES FROM DROWNING. .

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 17, 10 July 1900, Page 3

REMARKABLE ESCAPES FROM DROWNING. .

\ It is rarely that a man falls overboard in mid-ocean aad, after eleven hours of torturing is picked up by his ship after all hope had fted. Buch happened in the case of an apprentice on board the ship Pav- • fillan, a weli -known visitor to Australian ports. 'The youth, whose name is Harry Warner, was out on the bowsprit,when he slipped and fell into the sea Writing of his rescue to "his brother, he says that had it not been for Captain Arthur, of the Bacfillan, vrho persisted in keeping up a search, after almost every man had given him up \ for dead, he would nave"r again have bee>n heard from. The ship was on a voyage to Santa Bosalie from Cardiff, and- was near her destination -when the accident happened. After the cry '• Man overboard ! " was raised a lifebuoy was thrown, yards were backed, and a boat left in search. In three hours she returned only to report having been unsuccessful. Arthur determined to work his ship back on the zigzag « 'principle*. After eight hours of persistent searching with men aloft scanning the ocean, the lifebuoy, with Warner hanging on it, was sighted, picked up, and two days later the reaoued apprentice was himself again.