STORY OF THE SEA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8469, 21 June 1907, Page 5

STORY OF THE SEA.

By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, June 20. The Nukualofa correspondent of the Auckland Herald sends the following graphic story of.the sea, under date June 15th:—On Sunday afternoon, May 26th, there came into the harbour a ship's lifeboat, low in the water, for she was leaking badly, containing Captain Christensen, his wife and eight ot the crew of the Norwegian barque Albania, which had been knocked about in a heavy gale, and had sprung a-leak, and had been abandoned by her crew about 400 miles to the southward of Tonga. The distressed voyagers were glad to get ashore and stretch their cramped limbs, after a voyage of -nine days in the boat. The captain's wife was so stiff from wet, cold and v exposure that she had to be carried .from the boat and wheeled up the / wharf on a truck. On learning from the captain that' the two mates and the remaining six members of the crew were still in the other ship's boat somewhere on the ocean, the Tongan Government despatched two cutters in search of them, one going to the eastward end of the island of ' Tongatabu, and the other, to the westward. iHtt. eastward party, under / the cormHßd of Nape, a local native pilot, came across the boat just after dark. The shipwrecked mariners 'left for' Sydney, en route for Norway, by the Atua, on June 2nd.

CABLE TSEWS.]

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