Huge Wave Crashes Over Atlantic Liner
COOK’S NECK BROKEN MEN NEARLY DROWNED (United I*.A. — By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 9.5 a.m. NEW YORK. Wed. The liner Majestic docked 15 hours late, and reported that a mammoth wave crashed over her on Tuesday and killed a cook. Leonardo Fiorni. The water slammed the companionway door, hurled him against the wall, and broke his neck. Nine other members of the crew and four first-class passengers narrowly escaped drowning. Tons of water poured into the depths of the ship, flooding part of the crew's quarters and the steerage to the ceiling. Nine men only saved themselves by swimming through the doorway and getting up to the deck through a smashed hatch. The water crushed the companion wall, trapping four passengers behind the wreckage. They were not hurt, but were imprisoned until the crew chopped away the wall. The wave cracked the heavy steel hatchway like matchwood.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 564, 17 January 1929, Page 9
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157Huge Wave Crashes Over Atlantic Liner Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 564, 17 January 1929, Page 9
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