LOST OVERBOARD.
SENSATIONAL ACCIDENT IN BASS STRAIT. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, March 33. Captain Aslaksen, of the Norwegian barque Glonshee, which put in at Wellington late last night, bound from Melbourne to Falmouth, reports that on the run across two of his crew were 'washed overboard, one of them—a sailor named Mardelles—being drowned. The accident happened on March 15, when the vessel was running past Bass Straits in heavy weather. The two men were sent into the rigging, and, while engaged there, ’a tremendous sea struck the ship, and washed both overboard. One fell over the lec side, and was able to grasp a rope thrown out l>y tlie captain. He was then hauled aboard. Mardelles, who fell on the other side of the barque, wms never seen again. Lifebuoys were thrown overboard, but the sea was too heavy to enable the lifeboat to be launched.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13341, 1 April 1911, Page 3
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147LOST OVERBOARD. Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13341, 1 April 1911, Page 3
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