WRECK OF USWORTH
BROKEN STEERING GEAR.
HOW RESCUE WAS EFFECTED.
ASSISTED BY JEAN JADOT.
RUGBY, December 16. Further details of the. wreck of the Usworth state that the steering gear had broken in a violent gale and she had been taken in tow by the Jean Jadot but on Wednesday night the tow-rope parted. The Usworth rigged a temporary steering gear and proceeded toward Queenstown under the Jean Jadot’s escort, but yesterday morning she sent out distress calls, and the Ascania came to her help.
High seas were running, and when the Ascania arrived the Usworth was awash, with a bad list. While the Ascania stood to windward to provide shelter the Belgians launched a lifeboat and took off several of the Usworth’s crew, but on the return journey the lifeboat was swamped and* ten of the Usworth’s seamen and two of the would-be rescuers were drowned. The Ascania then launched a lifeboat and succeeded in taking off the remaining 18 members of the Usworth’s crew.
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Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19453, 18 December 1934, Page 8
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