HARPOON LIFE-LINE
Whaler's Crew Saved by Unique Method (Received 27, 10.40 a.m.) v. .. : . . CAPETOVVN, Bept. 26. The cfew of a Cape whaler which 'ran ashore near Saldanha Bay, on .the Cape West Coast, saved themselves by iheans which . i^ust be .ubiqugi . in the.,.Mktbry fof seaih%sbip.-' /:, • f The vessel was pdunding heavily on reef" and, altliou^h three nten inanaged to swim to a. lifeboat which had been swept' overboard, there seemed no hope for the rest of them, for it was a lonely coast, with the nearest roclret apparatug more than 100 miles away in Capetown. - In desperation, howeVer, the men fired a harpoon. straight at the steeply rising shore. The lieavy harpoon landed truly on it's point and buried itself in the earth.- When the crew tested the line they found that it held firmly, and eigibt-of the men managed to reach the shore by- using it as a lifeline, Two were waslied away and drowued.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 4, 28 September 1937, Page 9
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156HARPOON LIFE-LINE Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 4, 28 September 1937, Page 9
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