CAT OVERBOARD
HOW TIM WAS RESCUED,
This is the story of Tim, the ship’s cat, of the Grrosby steam trawler, Wit ham.
Whilst Tim was running along the ship’s rail, out in the North Sea, a huge wave engulfed the trawler, and alarm was raised, and Skipper Howerd brought ’the vessel about the crew springing to their stations as though the alarm had been “Man overboard.’ Baskets and boards were flung over the side to the struggling cat, who paddling like a dog, was making a brave effort to’ keep his head above the water.
Fifteen minutes elapsed before the vessel, hampered by her fishing gear, could he manoeuvred into a position from which a basket, secured to a coat-hook, could be extended to Tim who, making a- last effort, drove his claws into the wicker work and held on grimly until he was dragged on deck.
Tim was for three hours too exhausted to move but later he recovered completely. The manoeuvre of the Witham was seen by a Dutch' trawler whose master assumed that man had fallen overboard. He hurried at full speed to the spot, and was speechless with amazement when he learnt the cause of the excitement.
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 September 1929, Page 7
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201CAT OVERBOARD Hokitika Guardian, 2 September 1929, Page 7
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