DISASTER AT SEA.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 219, 20 February 1875, Page 3

DISASTER AT SEA.

(China Mail.)

The British vessel Albert Victor arrived on Sunday, bringing ten men and onewoman, the former Chinese, and the latter Siamese, picked up at sea eighty miles S B. of the Shantung Promontory. They were found floating in a huge water tank, and informed the captain of the Albert Victor that they had left Newchwang on November 2Lsfc, in the Siamese barque Contest, which foundered the next day near the Shantung Promontory. The captain of the Contest, by name Kramer, had taken refuge in the water tank before the Chinese now saved entered it, but on seeing their approach he left it, and was not seen again. The Contest went down half an hour after the boats, which are supposed to have been made use of for safety by the Malay crew, were entered, but owing to the darkness nothing is known by those who are rescued by the Albert Victor as to the fate of either officers or crew. The water tank floated about for six days with its living occupants, who during that time had no other provisions than a fowl and a salt fish. They state that they had no water to drink the whole time, and that they had made up their minds to kill and devour the pretty and young Siamese female who was sharing their fate in the water tank. They were all so exhausted that they had to be carried on board the Albert Victor.