THRILLING RESCUES AT SEA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 4 July 1907, Page 4

THRILLING RESCUES AT SEA.

lc A thrilling story of the rescue of a t- vessel's crew by a Liverpool liner came : n to hand with the arrival of the steamer !s Ascunrion de Larrinaga at. Liverpool. -" The Norwegian iron baripie Eiincrdah' n 11-274 Inns register) left Ship Island on !r March 13th for Itucnoji Ay res. with a "-' cargo of timbei-. Whilst in the straits ■> of Florida on April Ist she was struck '" by a mountainous sea. which swept '■ away her mainmast, deck-houses, and - ,f bulwarks on the port and starboard sides. II belles j-iirryiug away all her hnals. A _/j £-' hurricane was raging, and the waves. : ' which rose over the helpless barque. ; " washed away three of the sixteen mem- ' hers of the crew. By dint of the cx- '' triionlinary efl'orts at (be pumps the '' barque siirvivM (he terrible fury of the ■ r wind and «ea thiimgh the night. '' In the afteinoon of the following day " she was lighted by the liner Asuncion ile ■ v Larrinngii. bound from Galveston to l.iv.v erpnol. Captain Kramer signalled that us no boat could live in such 11 sea. he '" would stand by till the weather uinder- ' ati'd. Next morning, at daybreak, a (1 gooil progress was made. Twelve of the '" crew bad been transferred from the YV r " banpic to the lifeboat, and the tliirs ' teenth was on the point cjl' leaving, '" when a huge sea caused the Ennerdale la to roll, with the result that her counter T J '- struck the frail craft, which at that 1110- ''' nieiit was beneath her stern quarter, and '" ea]isized her. Some of the men maiilt' aged to regain the deck of the barque a ' by means of the bottom of the upliirn■h ed lifeboat. le The Asuncion de Larrinagji, skilfully 3 " manoeuvred by Captain Kramer, picked ' up live from the w;it •■. Mr Duncan, who "" had charge of the lifeboat, and the stew- 6< s " anl of the Knnerdale, were never seen 'y again. It is believed that when the ''' banpie struck the lifeboat they were in- "' jured and rendered unconscious. A sc- J '" cond boat was despatched from the As- "' imenon de birriuaga. ill charge of the 111 secoud oilicer Mr It. A. Ferns. One by ls one the men on the Eunerdale jumped lc into the angry sea, and in this way all jl were saved. It was in every sense an ,l heroic piece of work on the part of all '* concerned.