A Crew's Experience

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7731, 6 February 1905, Page 2

A Crew's Experience

ihe Warren line steamer lowa, which arrived in Che Mersey recently from Galveston, landed tho crew of tho N orweglan barquo Hamlngja, of Lillraaml, who were picked up in Int. 38 (leg. 25 m., N,, long, f.O W. While tho barque was on a voyage from Brunswick, O.eorgia, to Sharpness, laden with turpentine. she encountered a heavy hurricane about November 15 which carried away tho bulwarks on one j l ' ." mi caused the deck and beams ■to give way. As the sea incrwised in fury the vessel got beyond control, and when the rudder went the two small boats were lowered, after being provisioned, and part of the crt,-\v of JO all told—eight Norwegians a London A.l!. named liootv. ancf a Dublin sailor—aHindoned t'hpir vessel, leaving the captajn, mate, ami one yajlor on hoard for (.he night. Much di/llculty was experienced in keeping the boats afloat apd on the morning of November I<> jhppaplaiii anil li|s companions wore taken on a boat, with a cat and dog, and the same evening was picked U|l by the lowa. While in the boats the men were surrounded by a number of sharks, which kept swimming from one boat to another, and as the small craft were lxjginning to ijjak the men feared as to what would be their late. When the lowa re-started her voyage the Ilamingja was drifting in a sinking condition. The White Star line steamer Ce|tic which arrived from (Liverpool on Septpmber 24 in New York, had on ■board the largest number of passengere ever brought to that port on a single steamer. Her passenger list consisted of 310 saloon, 239 second cabin, and 2398 third-class passengers, a total of 2937, which, together with her crew of 381, made a' grand total of 8318 persons on :foQarrt;th9/WB linejv