TWENTY-ONE DEAD
WHEN GREEK STEAMER SINKS
TRAGEDY ON AMERICAN COAST,
(United Pr«a* Association —By Electric .Telegraph—copyright.)
PHILADELPHIA, October 12,
Twenty-one lives were lost when the Greek steamer Annoula sank in a hurricane off the North Carolina coast on Saturday last. Five survivors reported the disaster to-day after landing from a rescue vessel, Captain George Couvielor and four members of the crew, in a lifeboat, were picked up on Sunday by the steamer Monello, one hundred and ten miles northwest of Bermuda, after drifting sixty miles.
Captain Couvielor said he called the radio operator on Saturday morning to send an “5.0.5.” when mountainous waves swept, over the ship, throwing him into the sea, where ho and two others were picked up by two of the sailors, who managed to get .one of the ship’s lifeboats. All of the others of the crew were drowned.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 October 1933, Page 5
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