SAVED FROM THE SEA.

Otaki Mail, 29 June 1923, Page 3

SAVED FROM THE SEA.

HALF TREVESS.V* CHEW LAND. AFTER LONG OCEAN JOURNEY IN SMALL ROAT. LONDON, June '-'7. The Treyessa's _■;. neis ban.-e j received a cab' - a pin ihe captain .stating that the pliief engineer a-id sis;, en oi the crew of th(i vessel have landed at Rodriguez, and thai he believes Ibe rest of the ship's company, who ere in another boat, ore sale, LONDON. June iS. The Admiralty has been advised that , twojutemhei s of the crew oi the Trevessa in the eapiuin~ beat died at see.. They'parted "with tlie"biber boat, wlricli'was Ordered to proceed to Rodriquez, on June f<.

A warship nam Colombo life been} ordered xo search lor the second boaLj The Trevessa carried a crew of 43 _ I including 3.1 seamen. On May .!."> she left, Port Pirie for England with a full cargo of ore concentrates. On June, -i, when she was 15t<0 miles, distant from, tb-e Australian coast and in the Indian Ocean, the radio stations in New Zealand got despairing messages that she : was sinking in laditude 23.45 south, longitude 85.45 east. A message stated the crew wc-re taidnjr to the boats and at 8.6 the signals faded out. The nearest ship, the Tfegannn, was 400 miles- away and made for the spot at full speed," but no trace of the ship's boats could be found. .Another ship the Trevean maintained a search un*.i? thU week without -restUt.

Rodriguez is an island in the Masca-i-ene group. f!7O miles east o-f Mauxitius, in the Indian Ocean. It has been British since ISI4 and is a station of the • All British" cable hctw'een South Africa and. Australia. It. lias an area i of 42 square miles, is very "fertile and: maintain? a. population of 5000 people.; The story of Ure crew's lonp ocean iouniey lasting over three weeks. »»-il! be. awaited with Interest.