CREW RESCUED
A WRECKED SCHOONER
BRITISH NAVAL EPIC
HONG KONG, 4th December. The Hedvig's crew are all safe aboard H.M.S. Suffolk, after 49 hours' terrible experience in a raging sea. The Navy achieved a spectacular rescue, the boats threading their way through wave-swept reefs. It was a memorable epic. Earlier it was stated that a hazardous rescue of the Hedvig's crew was being attempted by H.M.S. Suffolk's lifeboats, which were launched in tempestuous seas, and were threading their way across a twelve-mile lagoon. The Hedvig, which is 'breaking up, is a Dutch schooner. -There wore 14 people aboard. A message from Hong Kong on Wednesday stated that the Hedvig was ashore and breaking up on a coral reef 350 miles south of Hong Kong. In response to urgent distress signals, H.M.S. Storm Cloud rushed to her assistance.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 135, 5 December 1930, Page 9
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137CREW RESCUED Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 135, 5 December 1930, Page 9
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