RESCUE BY THE PROVIDENCE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 16750, 4 January 1915, Page 7

RESCUE BY THE PROVIDENCE.

STORIES OF SURVIVORS

DIFFICULTY IN LAUNCHING m . i BOATS. (Received January 3, .'3.25 p.m.) __ _: LONDON, January 2. lite .Providence at nine o'clock on •Friday morning sighted the plnnaco

flying a. scarf from an oar as a signal of distress. With the utmost difficulty the trawler manoeuvred 'to windward and after four attempts hauled the pinnace round tho stern and tho sailors began to jump, aboard. There was great danger, as tho seas wero thirty feet high. It took half an hour to get all aboard.

Survivors state that there was the greatest difficulty in launching boats. Theirs was stoyo in and they Btuffed the holo with jumpers. All tho oars wero smashed in rending off. Somo men jumped from tho decks and swam to the boat. One boat fell nose first, throwing the crow into the sea.. .When the pinnace got away the men wero singing "Tipperary," but a heavy sea broke over them, and they were compelled to save their breath for continuous baling.