SAVING LIFE AT SEA.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1523, 21 June 1873, Page 2

SAVING LIFE AT SEA.

The steamers of the Hamburg- American Company have been the means of saving the lives of many shipwrecked sailors during the severe weather prevailing this winter, and the Board of Trade has recently made awards to the captains and others who were instrumental in rescuing the crews of British ships. To Captain Barends, of the steamship Holsatia, was presented an aneroid barometer, for taking sixteen men off the wreck of the Ladye Love, bound from Montreal to Queenstown, which was fallen in with [on her, beam ends. The men were sitting on the weather rail,' and it was with the greatest difficulty to Holsatia's boats approached the wreck, owing to the heavy sea running, each man being drawn about 100 ft through the sea to the lifeboats, the whole service occupying about nine hours. The Board of Trade likewise gave L 2 to each of the six men who manned the Holsatia's boats. To Captain Hebich, of the s.s. Silesia, a binocular glass was forwarded, for his services in saving the crew from the wreck of the barque General Neill, bound from Quebec to Limerick. The vessel was water-logged, ami on her beam ends ; the crew hadtaken to the rigging, and had been there for four days, with only a barrel of flour for subsistence, all the stores having been lost. The men had to be pulled from the wreck by a life-buoy, as the sea was too heavy to admit of the boats getting near enough. For the rescue of the crew from the schooner Patriot, of Plymouth, by the steamship Frisia, a handsome silver-jug has been presented to her commander, Emil Meier, and the sum of LlO for distribution amongst the seven men who maimed the rescuing boat. The Patriot was bound from Cardiff to Lisbon with a cargo of coals. Eight persons were saved from Jier at great risk of life and damage to boat, owing to the heavy cross sea. The master of the Patriot has expressed himself as deeply thankful for the great kindness shown him and his men by all on board the Frisia. The President of the United States has forwarded through the German Ambassador at Washington a very valuable gold watch and chain to Capt. Franzen, of the steamship Vandalia, as an acknowledgment of his services in taking the crew from the American ship Calhoun, which was water-logged, and landed them at Plymouth. The watch has a suitable inscription on it.