WRECKED SAILORS' FEAT
SIXTY MILES IN AN OPEN BOAT As daylight broke over the Outer Hebrides recently seven shipwrecked sailors painfully staggered over the boulder-strewn shore near the hamlet of Northton, Harris. They had almost given up hope of ever seeing land again during their 60-mile voyage in a tiny boat through mountainous seas. While on the way from the United States to Denmark, the 2,600-ton windjammer Victor struck a rock and was badly holed. The ship’s master, Captain Laks, ordered his men to take to the boats, and then began their long, weary fight for life. Crofters, always early risers, were astonished to see the weather-bitten seamen clambering over the rocks. The crofters gave all assistance possible and shared their food with the sailors. Everything the men had was lost in the Victor. The Victor had been bought in the United States -by a Mr Jornos, of Estonia, and all the crew are Estonians,. Last year Mr Jornos bought six ships in the United States of America, and the first five of these arrived at Copenhagen with crews of only five men.
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Evening Star, Issue 22457, 30 September 1936, Page 12
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183WRECKED SAILORS' FEAT Evening Star, Issue 22457, 30 September 1936, Page 12
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