CRADLED IN ICE.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 678, 17 June 1914, Page 2

CRADLED IN ICE.

A STRANGE EXPERIENCE. A very remarkable iceberg experi-' ence indeed was that which befell the steamship Whitelaw a year or two ago. On the third day out from Belfast for New Brunswick she broke her propeller-shaft. The screw dropped off, and she was left hopelessly tossing to the long swing of the Atlantic. Fog came down, and, shrouded in dense white mist, ths Whitelaw drifted for five more days. Then fame wind, but still the fog h'Jng close. On the morning of the sixth c"ay from the accident the pallid outline of a giant iceberg loomsd above the ship. Before boats could be got out there was a grinding heave, and , the ship was suddenly steady. She had gone hard aground on an underwater projection of tho ice mass. The waves were breaking so violent ly on the berg that launching a boat was impossible. There was nothing to do but wait. Every moment the crew expected a mass of ice to break and fall upon them, or the whole berg to turn turtle; but nothing happened. Packed in a cradle of ice, they drifted in a southerly direction. As the berg reached warmei waters, it gradually diminished in size, a nd a s it dM so tilted slightly, lifting the Whitelaw quite out of the water. Three weeks of drifting and the crow of the wrecked ship managed" to attract the attention of the Cyrus, of Hamburg, and were taken off just in time. No sooner were they aboard the Cyrus than, with a stately swing, their floating prison turned over on its side, carrying the Whitelaw with it.—"Weekly Telegraph."