TRAWLER WRECKED.
LOSS OF CREW FEARED. GALLANT ATTEMPT AT RESCUE SEVERAL ABORTIVE ATTEMPTS. United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel.—Copyright. (Received April 1, 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, March 31. Seven men lashed io tJib rigging of the trawler Bendoran, which was washed ashore at Skerricskeek, Shetland Isles, watched the trawler Aurora approach within a quarter of a mile and beaten back by mountainous seas breaking over the sunken reefs. A fishing boat, manned by volunteer rescuers, made a gallant effort to get a line aboard, but was also driven off. Heroic rescue attempts continued for thirty hours. Two of the shipwrecked men were washed away and later trawlers reported that Hie Bendoran had broken up and disappeared. it is feared all perished.
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Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17984, 1 April 1930, Page 7
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