GALLANT DEED
BY AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS CREW OF WRECKED SHIP SAVED. FOUR OF THE RESCUERS DROWNED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) SYDNEY, November 16. Thirty Australian soldiers saved all 62 members of the crew of a 9,000-ton Allied ship which ran aground in heavy seas on the New South Wales coast. Four of the Australians were drowned when they were washed off rocks. The rescue was made in May but the news has just been released. The ship, driven by a storm, crashed into the rocks, waves thirty feel high tearing away nearly all her lifeboats and battering pieces of the superstructure. Two Australian Army officers risked their lives by swimming out to a lifebuoy thrown from the ship with a line attached and towing it ashore. The Australians were buffeted by the waves when they stood on slippery rocks holding the rope taut. Members of the crew could slide along it in a bosun’s chair.
As the last rescue of the day was being attempted, a great wave swept seven soldiers out to sea and four were drowned. The ship later broke up and became a total loss.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 November 1943, Page 3
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186GALLANT DEED Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 November 1943, Page 3
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