THRILLING RESCUE
FROM. BLAZING SHIP. [United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] ll ' ,! LONDON, July 26. A thrilling story was unfolded when the liner “Rangitata” docked 'at Southampton with ten passengers, including two women and two children, and fifty-three of the crew of the German steamer “Targis.” A New Zealander, Mr W. Strict, told interviewers that the Rangitata saw at nine o’clock in the morning what, seemed like' a cloud on the horizon, but later it was discovered to be a pall of white smoke enveloping the “Targis” from which flames were soon ,shooting upwards sixty feet high 'and licking the masthead. The Rangitata picked up the passengers and the crew of the Targis, some of whom had burned their ! hands as the result ctf sliding down ropes against the red hot'hull The German ship’s master, Captain Erasing, made a heroic return to the “Targis” on a 1 humane mission of shooting a pig which had been left in the deckhouse. •i Captain Hunter said that he had never, seen such a blaze. The heat was an uncomfortable one, even at the distance at which the Rangitata hove to.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 July 1930, Page 5
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187THRILLING RESCUE Hokitika Guardian, 28 July 1930, Page 5
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