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%* cif^e zot Que. .£ ) ~*........^%* (11 ' J Guifof jL MM. pj *»-, 2^^**4J^op# Brecon I. w *» 1 N NORTH SYDNEY, N.S. (CP) — The storm-tossed vaves of Cabot Strait claimed their second ship with-n hours today as a CNR ferry sunk while on a mission to rescue survivors from an earlier disaster. Twelve persons are believed dead in the two sinkings. The ferry Patrick Morris had sailed ahead of schedule looking for survivors from the sunken fishing vessel when it began taking on storm waters itself and went down. Winds up to 70 miles an hour and a blinding sea were reported off the Cape Breton port. No clear explanation for the ship's sinking was immediately available, but waterfront sources said it was the worst storm of the season. Four crew aboard the ferry and its captain, 54-year-old Roland Peffey, as well as seven crew members of the fishing boat Enterprise are missing. The Patrick Morris was carrying a crew of 51, but no passengers. Forty-seven of the crew were picked up by other ships, most of them by the German trawler Rhine Ohr. THE TRAGEDY began to unfold late yesterday when the 100-foot Newfoundland-based herring seiner Enterprise got into trouble in high seas about 10 miles off the northern tip of Cape Breton. Her calls for help sent several ships, to the area. The Patrick Morris, due to sail early today for Port aux Basques, Nfld., requested permission to sail early to join ( the rescue effort, which continued throughout the night. Preliminary reports here i n d i c a t e d the Morris has sighted a man's body — presumed a victim of the Enterprise sinking — and was attempting to recover it when a heaVy sea struck her stern. The ship's stern gates, it was said, had been opened to recover the body. THE CNR ferry Ambrose Shea headed in here with an injured stewardess. Birdie Cole suffered a severe head cut when she fell aboard ship. It was reported earlier that the Ambrose Shea had picked up some of the Morris' crew, but a spokesman said all 47 were aboard other ships — most of them on the Rhine Ohr. In Moncton, N.B, the CNR regional vice-president, W. G. Macdougall, said the loss of the Patrick Morris should mot have any immediate impact on the movement of freight to and from Newfoundland. The ship had been tied up for the last six weeks because she is not equipped to operate in ice. All the traffic was being handled by the other rail car ferry, the Frederick Carter, which can operate in ice. "WE ARE starting imme- diately to look into the possibilities of obtaining another vessel to be used in the Newfoundland service. There are, I understand, some rail car ferries available in different parts of the world," Mr. MacDdougall said. "The worst part of the loss of the vessel is that some of the crew members are still unaccounted for and my sympathy goes out to their families. The men who operate our Newfoundland ships are highly skilled sailors and it is in keeping with their traditions that this loss should have happened when they were going to the assistance of some others whose lives were endangered by the hazards of the sea."