SHIPPING DISASTER
STEAMER AND TUG COLLIDE.
(United Press Association.—By; Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
(Received this day at 11.25. a.m.) LONDON, August 18.
Four officers and fourteen men are missing as a result of a collision, thirty miles from the mouth of the Humber, in which the large, ocean-go-ing tug, King’s. Cross, collided amidships with the Spanish steamer Ogono and sank her in six minutes. Tho crew were unable to launch the boats and jumped overboard, except the steward, who climbed the aftermast mid clung to the shrouds until another vessel rescued him.
The King’s Cross stood by and picked up eight of the Ogono’s crew. The collier Starlight saved the ninth and a third vessel the tenth and also recovered the body of the wireless operator. The King’s Cross whose (stem is badly buckled brought the body and the survivors to Grimsby.
Uguldo, a second mate on the Ogono and the only officer saved, said he saw from the bridge the King’s Cross’s flights approaching and heard two siren blasts. A collision immediately follow ed and he and five shipmates clung to an overturned lifeboat until rescued.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 August 1929, Page 5
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