GRAPHIC REPORT
,OF STORM CONDITIONS
(Per British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, November 19
The captain of the Berengaria. which reached Southampton this morning, twelve hours late, having encountered the severest crossing for several years, gave a graphic account of the unavailing search for the Saxilbv, which, it is feared, was lost'with all the twenty-nine hands. Captain Britten da id that the Bei-engia was aibout 3CO miles distant, which the distress call from the S'iaxilby was received. “I made immediately for the position indicated, but the weather conditions were very bad. A strong north-wester wind increased to gale force, and the waves were about fifty feet high. We arrived at the position indicated, about one o’clock on Thursday morning. Fourteen look-out men were specially posted, in addition to the officers on the ship. Who the day dawned, we cruised over the radius for at least forty miles, hut saw no signs of the Saxilby or the crew. The seas were so hear we could not have launched a boat. I assume the ‘vessel foundered, because there were no signs of wreckage.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 November 1933, Page 5
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