Maritime History of the Great Lakes

Brookes Scrapbooks, 1966, p. 50

The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

Police Of Penzance - - - — t Subdue Pirate Crew PENZANCE, England (UPI) -r Gilbert and Sullivan would have had a time casting the "Mutiny" staged Saturday aboard a Liberian freighter by German crewmen off this storied English port. When the dust cleared, Penzance police who went to the rescue via a lifeboat following an S.O.S. from the ship's captain, took five men ashore — two for sobering treatment and three for treatment of wounds. The "Mutiny" apparently was hatched near the ship's liquor locker — after it had been broken open with an axe. WITH THEIR sailing spirit somewhat diminished the mutineers went on a free-for-all spree. The ship's bo'sun, 27-vear-old Jacob Larder, hid in a dummy funnel. The radio operator barri- caded himself in his wireless shack and sent the international distress signal for help. One seaman was found floundering in the sea on a raft but it was not immediately clear whether the mutineers set him adrift or whether he was trying to escape their wrath. BY THE TIME the lifeboat carrying six policemen reached the vessel, most of the ship's cabins, including that of Capt. Albert Sturm, were a shambles. The police remained aboard the 8,200-ton Ems-Ore until it berthed in Mount's Bay. All five seamen taken off the vessel will be sent back to Germany. The freighter's captain hoped to continue his trip from Glasgow, Scotland, to Vittoria, Brazil. 7-month y Wonder It took only seven months to build the German ship Transatlantic in Japan after the first one sank in a Seaway collision last year. A freighter, it carries only 12 passengers but the accommodations in their section are impressive. Ship's steward Egon Lamgs, comes down curved staircase from passenger deck, —Picture by Jack Hourigan M^CUNARD ~X. - Cunard Steam-Ship Co. Ltd. of Liverpool will introduce winter service between Montreal and the United Kingdom with its newly built cargo liner, Scotia. The 7,500-ton vessel is to cail at Montreal twice, with sailings from London set for Dec. 20 and Feb. 7. Calls are scheduled at Le Havre and Antwerp for the ice-reinforced ship, which is being fitted out at the Cammell Laird and Co. (Shipbuilders and Engineers) Ltd. yard at.Birken-head. / ^ DONALDSON H^' Donaldson Brothers and Black Ltd. of Glasgow will discontinue direct passenger-cargo service between Montreal and Britain with the J^is-moria and Laurentia, both 8,-3o7Tton ships~with' accommodation for 50 passengers. A spokesman for the line said periodic service will be provided using smaller vessels with accommodation for 12 passengers. The two ships have been on the schedule since the Second World War, replacing the Letitia and the Athenia, the first passenger ship sunk by a German submarine during the war.

Powered by / Alimenté par VITA Toolkit
Privacy Policy