ONLY ONE SURVIVOR
N.Z. Liner Collides wrth Herring Drifter TRAGEDY IN CHANNEL LONDON, Noy. 20. It is now learned that the liner I Hurunui, en route for Newcastle from Australia and New Zealand, sunk the herring ( drifter, Reclaim, off the Suffolk. coast, only one of the crew of the smaller vessel bring saved. Abed amid hot water bottles in Lowestoft Hcspital, Samuel Mortishire, the sole survivor of the Reclaim, told in vnhispers how the Hurunui, 20 times her size, collided with the drifter, cut her in hhlf, and sank her immediately. The Hurunui towered out of a rain squall when the driffcer's skipper and mate were 3n the wheelhouso and tlie crew below decks. T-oy dicd withiu sight of their liome, Kessingland. Mortishire, ths only hand on deck, dropped a bucket and yelled .without thinking: "Come up and see the fuu," which is eustomary wlien anything * usual is happening. Then realising tlie situation, ho took a ueep breath, and dived over the port sido as the steamer shore like a knife through the drifter. . He clung to a piece of wreckage and was unconscidus when pick'ed up L/ the drifter Sustain, whose skipper said the swift lowering of. a boat from the Hurunui was the finest piece of seaman- . ship he had ever seen.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HBHETR19371122.2.44
Bibliographic details
Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 50, 22 November 1937, Page 7
Word Count
214ONLY ONE SURVIVOR Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 50, 22 November 1937, Page 7
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in