Woman found Adrift 75 Miles at Sea.

Manawatu Herald, 12 September 1903, Page 2

Woman found Adrift 75 Miles at Sea.

Blown seventy-five miles out to sea and two days adrift in a. dory—that was the experience of Mrs Carter, of Monroe's Island, U.S.A., recently. The gale was the most severe ever experienced in Penobscot Bay. Fishermen declared they never saw anything like it, and express the greatest surprise that the dory lived through it. Mrs Carter was picked up one afternoon by the fishing schooner Hazel Oneta, Captain William Walonson, of Gloucester, 80 miles east of Mount Desert Rock. The woman was half dead from exhaustion and the effects of large quantities of salt water taken to quench, her thirst, and was carried to Long Island, where she revived during the night sufficiently to relate her experiences. She is expected to recover.

Mrs Carter said she left Owl’s Head to row to her home, at Monroe’s Island, about three-quarters of a mile. One oar broke, and she drifted to sea, passing unnoticed by several pleasure craft just at dusk. During the gale which swept the coast and continued all day Monday she became hysterical, and abandoning all h ips of rescue, she drank large quanties of sea water. She passed several vessels at sea, but the weather was so rough she could not be seen. She lay down, and must have fallen asleep, for she remembers nothing more.