Rescue of a Shipwrecked
■ -i • ■ Portion of a shipwrecked brew was picked up by the Japan mail steamer Sakata-Maru on a recent passage from Japan to Sydney. The vessel was making for Saigon, when a boat well down in the water was observed The steamer's course was altered, and the boat quickly brought alongside, and the . occupants ; taken on I board. The boat contained 10 souls — the mastei\ Captain Webster, second officer, and eight sailors of the British'ship Gretna, bound from * Cardiff to Hongkong with coals. The vessel was lost on the Rifleman Shoal, off the-Ghina coast, the cre^._barely escaping with their lives. They left the ship in three boats, all of which were picked up by passing vessels. The occupants of the boatj fallen in with by the Sakata Maru, stated that they had been five days tossing about at the mercy of the sea, and when pickefl up were in an exhausted condifcioni Captain McMillan, of the Sakata-Maru, showed them every a dness, and landed them safely a| Saigon. .
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Manawatu Herald, 3 January 1893, Page 2
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171Rescue of a Shipwrecked Manawatu Herald, 3 January 1893, Page 2
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