PICKED UP AT SEA
BURNT FREIGHTER'S BOAT
REMAINDER OF CREW
SANTA CRUZ (Cuba), June 18.
Seventoen men who had spent five days in a lifeboat after tho Norwegian freighter Knut Hamsun was burned at sea, were brought hero by a fishing smack, which picked them up hungry and almost naked.
The freighter, with a cargo of nitrate from Chile for Newport News, caught fire, burned to the water's edge, and sank about 150 miles off the. Niearaguan coast near Quitasuena Bank. The conflagration spread so rapidly that the crew was forced to take to tho lifeboats without sending out an SOS. The captain and 16 members of "the crew, after drifting in a, lifeboat for nearly three days, were rescued by the liner Zacapa.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 144, 20 June 1934, Page 9
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124PICKED UP AT SEA Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 144, 20 June 1934, Page 9
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