HARDSHIP IN DESERT
SHIPWRECKED MEN GO FOR HELP WATER AND FOOD GIVE OUT United P.A.—By Telegraph—Copyright CAPETOWN, Thursday. The engineer and two seamen from the steamer Limpopo, which was wrecked off Sylvia Hill, 90 miles north of Ludei'itz, reached that town today after suffering great hardships owing to lack of food and water. A Government tug has left to rescue the captain and 11 members of the crew still with the vessel. The engineer and the two seamen landed on the edge of a waterless desert. They followed the coast southward equipped only with half a gallon of water and two tins of condensed milk. After a 30 hours’ tramp the men found a deserted cabin stocked with supplies, but all of these were bad. Exhausted the men reached a diamond miner’s claim. There they were fed and after enjoying a rest continued their journey. There were sand dunes everywhere. Their food and water were finished by the first night. Then they saw lights and tried to reach them, but were too weak.
At daybreak the shipwrecked men painfully made their way into Luderitz, where they arrived at 10 a.m. The Limpopo was on her maiden voyage from Scotland to LourencoMarques, Portuguese East Africa,
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 867, 10 January 1930, Page 9
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