BIG TUG SINKS STEAMER

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 745, 19 August 1929, Page 1

BIG TUG SINKS STEAMER

Down in Six Minutes DISASTER OFF HUMBER MOUTH Eighteen Men Missing, One Dead (United P.A.—By Telegraph Copyright) (Australian and X.Z. Press Association) Received 10.5 a.m. LOXDOX, Sunday. FOUR officers and 14 men are missing as the result of a collision 30 miles front the Ilumber mouth in which the large ocean-going tug King’s Cross collided amidships with the Spanish steamer Ogono and sank Iter in six minutes.

The crew was unable to launch the boats and jumped overboard, except a steward, who climbed the after mast and clung in the shrouds until another vessel rescued him.

iug. and heard two siren blasts. The collision immediately followed. Ugaldo and five of his shipmates clung to an overturned lifeboat until they were rescued.

The King’s Cross stood by and picked up eight of the Ogono’s crew. The collier Starlight saved a ninth member of the crew, and a third vessel the tenth, also recovering the body of the Ogono’s wireless operator. The King’s Cross, whose stem was badly buckled, brought the survivors and the body of the wireless operator to Grimsby. Second I-late TTgaldo, of the Ogono, was the only officer saved. He said that from the bridge he saw the lights of the King’s Cross approach-

The Ogono, a steamer of 2,416 tons, was built in 1894 by Furness. Withy and Company at West Hartlepool. Ow ned by the Compania Navera Bidasoa, she was registered at Bilbao. The King’s Cross is a tug of 252 tons gross register. She was formerly called the Audax 11., and earlier still the Gelderland. She was built in 1918, and is owned by the Tees Towing Company, Limited. She is 115.6 feet long, 251 feet broad, and 12.7 feet deep.