Four Wrecked. Fishermen Rose, cued; by. Suiwo, The crew of: the LIES. str. Suiw in, very trying—eircumstancesy, tereued four stranded fishermen from their overturned june near, Edge Buoy on July 10, while the. vessel was en route- frown Hankow to Shanghai, The heavy. weather had, overturned the light craft and the men had clung to. ib of for.several hours before being sight"
.by the foreign, steamer, When the lovkout sighted the mens and the plight they were riy, hex notified the master, Capt, Jit Smith, who ordered the ship.to, bs. stopped. Owing to the heavy weather and turning about of the vessel in order to permit the lower~ ing of a. boat, the Suiwo shipped' much water, The report of Captain. Smith, mentioning the gallant. conduct, of Mr. Bernard Smith, Second Ofer, who had charge of the rescuing! party, is appended in full:—T have to report that, this afternoon, T landed at Tungchow, four, linen who were rescued by this vessel, from the wreck of a fishing. junk: near the Edge Buoy.
"At 2 p.m. tow lay, the men were: observed clinging to' floating wrod age and I sent away a sampan under. Mr, Bernard Smith, second mate andi, ith considerable dif culty, owing. to, the very bad weather, they were alit rescued, They' reported that their. vessels had foundered and they had-been in. the water for two hours, kept afloat by wreckage, They asked to. be landed at, Tangehow, from whic port they were on their way to th, fishing ground, During the operation of picking, the men up and turing ro unit nick up the sampan, this vessel rolled very heavily and shipped largo quantities of water, but no damage. could be discovered."
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