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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IV, Issue 203, 2 December 1864, Page 2 (Supplement)

A Remaukabi.e Escape.— A passenger bj the barque Imogen , which left Algoa Bay on the 21st June last, forwarded the accompanying letter from St. Helena to Cape Town paper. “St. Helena, Saturday, Kith July, 18G4.—Dear Sirs—Perhaps it may be interesting to many of your readers to hear the following facts. As you are aware, the barque Imogen leftAlgna Bay on the 21st June. Outlie following day, the Captain, Charles Gill, of Gosport, saw at a long distance a black point floating on the water. Although a strong breeze was blowing, and the ship making at least eight miles an hour, the captain, recognizing a human being, turned the ship round at once, and after an hour’s time,.picked up a poor shipwrecked sailor. The poor tellow could scarcely move his hands; his limbs were swollen dreadfully, but after a few days he recovered. His report is as follows: That he belonged to the ship I). L. Schoote, of Portland, United States of America, which foundered in the gale of the 15th June. The name of the sailer is Frederic Danker, a native of the Isle of Kugcn, Prussia. The ship foundered about twenty miles from Cape St. Francis, in latitude 34 degrees south, longitude 23 degrees 53 min. east. The crew of the unfortunate ship consisted of tlio captain, two mates, the steward (the latter was married, and his wife was on board), thirteen sailors, and two boys. He saw five men entering a boat, which is alljlie can remember; but be believes that every one was drowned. The ship was bound to Falmouth, for orders, and sailed from Bassein, India, with a cargo of rice. Too much piraise cannot be given to Captain Gill for saving the life*of a fellow-creature, who, for seven days and eioht nights, was floating about on the top of the deckhouse, without.any food whatever. He took some rum with him, but the same was washed away the first day. The man is how quite recovered."