Feb. 26.
Giovanni Pavan, an engineer and the solo survivor' of the Italian steamer Alcantara (1,682 tons), which sank off Dungeness February 24 following a collision with the four-masted Soviet barque 'A__moment later," Pavon_continued, "there was a terrific crash, like the crunching of timbers. The air was filled with shouts, curses and groans. The Chief Engineer yelled, "All hands on deck!—Quick-and saw the stem of the wedged Into our starboard quarter, her bowsprit stretching across our decks. heard two explosions which, believed, were the Aleantara's doilers. I' grasped a chain hanging from the Tovarisch's bowsprit, The Alcantara disappeared in "three minutes. A Russian sailor climbed fon the bowsprit, and hauled Pavan said that he saw the Russians lower three or four boats,
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