SINGULAR RESCUE AT SEA.

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 633, 29 June 1876, Page 4

SINGULAR RESCUE AT SEA.

“One of the most singular rescues ever reported, occurred,” the South Australian Advertiser reports, “ during the voyage of the Na Marole from Freemantle. The schooner was running at the rate of ten knots per hour, before a heavy westerly gale, when —the alarm was given of a man overboard. One of the South Sea Islanders had been relieved from the wheel, and in a heavy pair of boots and an oilskin coat, was going forward, when he was knocked overboard by a sea which came over the side. The waves were running mountainously as he dropped astern ; but the report was no sooner made than the schooner was rounded to, in the bare hope of saving the unfortunate man. She came to the wind under a press of sail, made a short reach, and was soon . about on the other tack. To judge of the time on such occasions is difficult, but the master considers that a quarter of an hour elapsed before the position where the man was lost overboard was regained. A sharp look-out was kept, and on heading over an immense sea the voice of the man was heard above the roar of the gale. The way of the craft was at once stopped, and the man swam up to the side, and was taken on board. He had thrown off the heavy boots, but brought the oilskin coat back.”