ILL-FATED VOYAGE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3780, 17 April 1928, Page 4

ILL-FATED VOYAGE.

VESSEL DECLINES TO GIVE AID

At the end of an ill-fated voyage of 118 days from Adelaide, South Australia, the five-masted schooner K. V. Kruse, battered by successive storms, has at last arrived at Seattle.

The troubles of the crew seemed to be at an end when a tug took the luckless vessel in tow. A sudden squall separated the schooner from the tug, however, and it quickly disappeared. The worst fears for its safety were entertained, but to-day the K. V. Kruse was again rescued and towed to Seattle, atad finally tied up in the dock with her sails torn to tatters and the crew suffering from fearful hardships, sickness and starvation.

A week ago when the schooner was approaching the coast, she signalled to a passing American tanker, “We are short of food.” “That is very appetising,” replied the tanker. “Please halt and give us food. W|e , cannot proceed,” pleaded the K. V. Kruse. “That is too bad,” replied the tanker, continuing on her way. (Spare brooms, chairs, and boards ripped from the deck were used during the last week to keep the cook’s fires burning. The rain-

soaked members of the crew were in a pitiable condition.

Funnels were fitted to motorships because when the first of these, the Selandia, was put into service in 1912 many emigrants refused to sail in her because she lacked funnels.