TREVESSA'S SURVIVOORS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 July 1923, Page 2

TREVESSA'S SURVIVOORS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. NAMES OF SIXTEEN. LONDON. June 30. The members saved of the crew of tho TieYessa include’ the following:—Stainton (New Zealand) and Brinks (Fremantle). Others saved are:—Baitibridge, Wilson. Sherijan, Burke, Stuart, Woolley, Scully, McGreen, Jones, Lopez, Pachon. Alinaji, Gomez, and Lister. SECOND BOAT'S MEN. LONDON, June 30. On landing, the survivors of the Trevessa were gaunt and bearded with many days’ growth. They fell on their knees and thanked God tor their deliverance. A Catholic Priest was the first one to come to their assistance on the beach. The crew begged piteously for water. A polity agent made the necessary arrangements for their conveyance to shelter.

The survivors were suffering agony in fact, ?is the resuit of their constant immersion in the salt water. LONDON, June 40. New and vivid details are arriving concerning the Trovessa's captain's party. When land was sighted by them all were in a state of collapse. v The outstanding personality was Scully, the seaman, who is aged 00. Scully refused sleep when the others wanted it. He continually cheered his comrades, when they ap|?ourcd to be surrendering their hopes. Another seaman enlivened their hopeless tropical days by singing. “I like Id a tit and Eggs,” when the biscuits were distributed. It transpires that there were suflirici't rations and water left to last- for a week with careful usage. They also had 1000 cigarettes, and two pounds of tobacco. During the launching of the captain’s Iroat. a Persian cat, together with four kittens newly horn in Austarlia, of which the captain was extremely fond, were placed in th,. boat, hut. the cat jumped hack- to the Tre-ves-a. and went down in her. The crew are unanimous that most of them arc alive through the skill and foresight of the captain and the chief officer, together with the severe and equitable rationing of the food. The Trovessa’s cook, Alohinn, who was in the second boat, had a vivid sea career dining th« war. He was three times torpedoed. He also had his face badly injured during a tight with suitmarines. He also was marooned on a desert island lor some time. He left the Trevain. a sister ship, in order to join the Treve-su. RELATIVES OF SFUYIVORS. LONDON, June 30. Mrs Smith, the wife of the chief offing of the Trevessa, interviewed after the news from the owners, said that when she heard that the captain’s lifeboat had arrived, she fell sure that her husband would steer the second boat to safety. “My faith has been rewarded,” she said. Mrs Smith’s last letter was dated from Melbourne, just j before the 'Trevessa left. Mrs Hall, of Brixham, mother of second officer, who has been saved, -aid d “For two nights my husband and I tat on these ( hairs watting and praying tor news of the second bunt. He are overjoyed.” The father of Barton, the assistant cook who is aged, and almost blind, believes that his son is still alive. His neighbours had not the heart to tell him that his s>u’s nanio is not among the survivors.

EIGHT STILL MISSING. LONDON. June 30. The Treve-sa’s owners say the vessel had a coploment of 44. New men signed on in Australia under the heading of Most. Indies. Either eight or ten are missing. Th e “Daily Express” has a Rodriquez message which states the second boat contained 21, and it gives their names. Therefore eight are missing. A comparison of this list, with the li-t of the survivors sent from Mauritius, shows th 0 names of the missing are:—Mordecai, Barton. 8.tf.~ tisto. Ali, Abrahams, Fraser McGee. The list- of survivors from Rodriquez and Mauritius do not state whence the men hail in all cases, but all except those cabled earlier are given as belonging to places in the British Isles.