THRILLING RESCUES.

Otaki Mail, 5 January 1923, Page 3

THRILLING RESCUES.

..——*— DRIFTER EOUNDERS IN STORMS Tempests raged all round "our coasts. Snow fell in the north, and many ships fell victims to the storm (says a recent Yarmouth cable). Another thrilling drama of the sea was told at Great Yarmouth by Skipper Alee. Green, of the Peterhead herring boat Cordelia, which sank off Yarmouth, and whose crew of nine men saved their lives by leaping from the sinking vessel to the deck of their rescuer. The crew were from Port Gordon. Skipper Green said he had been fishing off Yarmouth for several weeks, but on Wednesday a terrific gale forced him to run for Yarmouth. At 11 a.m. on Wednesday morning it was found that a plank had started and the water was pouring fast into the vessel. The pumps were immediately manned and worked at full pressure, but the leak steadily gained. The vessel was kept under way in the direction of Yarmouth, but, despite four hours' hard work in the raging gale, the water gradually rose, till it was eight feet deep in the fish hold. The engine-room was flooded and the fires extinguished. Tho desperate crew then hoisted signals of distress, for it was impossible in the heavy seas to launch a boat. At four in the afternoon the Mayberry, of Wick, steamed towards the sinking ship. Her skipper brought his vessel alongside the Cordelia, now in her last throes. He swung alongside, manoeuvring his vessel with consummate skill, and there it remained for an. instant, while the Cordelia's crew jumped from their own vessel to the Mayberry. Only a few succeeded in jumping before the waves carried the two vessels apart again. Once more the Mayberry's captain risked both boat md crew to get alongside, and the fortune that attends the brave gave him success. SCOTTISH DRIFTER SUNK. During the storm the Scottish drifter Enterprise, from Banff, foundered off East Anglia in the terrific gale on Wednesday night. Heavy seas went over both vessels tvhen the work of rescue was being carried out, and the Scotchmen had to jump three at a time from their own sinking vessel on to the deck of the Lowestoft boat. A message from Newport (Mon.) says that the Tenby lifeboat rescued two sailors from the abandoned trawler Labelia. An unsigned radio telegram, says Lloyd's, has been received from the steamer Tressillian via the steamer Jorsican, reading as follows:—"Have [ive crew of French sailing vessel Return —LS 115—on board. Captain reported washed overboard. Vessel is abandoned, and is dangerous to navigation." The captain of the British steamer Money Spinner, before reported disabled, reports that the steamer was abandoned in the Bay of Biscay on the afternoon of October 2Sth, owing to the shifting of the cargo and the ship assuming a heavy list. The vessel was still afloat when last seen, and all the crew were brought to Gibraltar by the French steamer La Fontaine.