SEA DRAMA
BURNING SHIP SANK
CAPTAIN AND CREW SAVED NEW YORK, June 20. The captain and 16 members of the crew of the Norwegian cargo steamer Knut Hamsun (5272 tons), which took fire and sank in the Caribbean Sea, were picked up today, after drifting in a lifeboat for nearly three days.
The captain of the United Fruit Company’s liner Zacapa, in a wireless message giving this news, said that he had seen no trace of the second lifeboat containing the rest of the lost ship’s crew—the mate and 17 men, the total complement having been 35.
The Knut Hamsun, which was on her way from Chile to Newport News with a cargo of nitrate, caught fire on Sunday night, when about 150 miles off the coast of Nacaragua.
The flames spread so rapidly that the crew were forced to take to the boats without having had a chance to send out a radio call for help. During the night the burned out shell of the vessel sank.
The captain of the Zacapa said in his message that he thought the missing lifeboat might drift in among the tiny islands off the coast of Nicaragua.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXIX, Issue 150, 22 June 1934, Page 5
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