“MAN OVERBOARD.”
ADVENTUROUS VOYAGE. A death, a man overboard, and a scarcity of provisions made the trip of tho Finnish sailing ship Grace Hawar, which arrived in London this month, a noteworthy one. A young Australian journalist, Ronald Gregory Walker, was killed while on a yard-arm. Off Capo Horn a Finnish sailor was swept overboard during a storm. Four Finns, an Australian and a Frenchman volunteered to man the lifeboat. It was late afternoon and big seas were running. The mate, who was in charge, tried to follow albatrosses, thinking that they were circling the missing man. When hope was given up they found tho seaman clinging to a lifebuoy. He was unconscious, and although he suffered badly from exposure, he recovered. When the ship crossed the Equator on July 20, three months out, provisions were running short, and a pig which was carried for fresh meat proved to he diseased when killed. Only potatoes, rice and grain in the hold remained after 123 days out when the British steamer Orangeleaf supplied fresh food and first news of the world since leaving Wallaroo.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 245, 14 September 1929, Page 15
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183“MAN OVERBOARD.” Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 245, 14 September 1929, Page 15
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