FIGHT TO SAVE SHIP.
ENGINEERS KNEE-DEEP IN WATER,
How the captain of a ship had practically to force his engineers out of a rapidly-flooding engine room was told when the survivors of the Bristol steamer Seaforth (349 tons), of Bristol, sunk in collision with the Spanish steamer Cristina in a fog in the Bristol Channel, arrived at Newport. Captain Greenway, of the Seaforth, a Gloucester man, said the bows of the Cristina nearly cut his vessel in halves. The two hoats became firmly locked, and he and his men scrambled aboard the Spanish vessel. Then he noticed that two engineers were missing, and went back to his ship to find them standing knee deep in the flooded engine room, and working desperately., They conducted an examination and decided it was hopeless to try to save the vessel. Nobody had time to gather any of his belongings together, and all made their way to the Cristina, which backed away, and the Seaforth went down.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 228, 26 September 1929, Page 10
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163FIGHT TO SAVE SHIP. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 228, 26 September 1929, Page 10
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