Amazing Plight of Two British Officers at Amoy: Machinery Sold to Pay for Food Stranded, twenty months without pay inva sloomer which might since at any moment during bad weather is the amazing experience of two Britons in Amoy, in one of the most remarkable affairs in the history of the sea.
Delays of a Chinese court In respect of a Chinese-owned ship, offers of purchase which cannot be accepted and, in the meantime, a handful of Britons and Filipinos' "carrying on" in a vessel with 300 tons of water in her bilges, all are part of the story.
The vessel is the s. Asia, of 4,007 gross tonnage, with a long string of Drevious names, Built In 1090. by Barclay, Curie & Ca,, Ltd, of Glasgow, she was originally known as the Donne Castle," Since then her name has been changed, in turn to St. Domingo. Curonia, Kaljo Maru, Susanna LI and, finally, Asia, a name which is also held by other ships known in, Chiia ports. in the Captain, Chief Engineer, Doctor and Purser having to do their own cooking. A further letter from Capt. Going reads: "On December 30, 1983, the stewards' department at last struck work and refused to do anything more. their excuse being that T accused them of feeding themselves fon the chow money T get weekly, and, of course, I know that they were living on our chow money: but their excuse was a very lame excuse, anc really was to have free lodging on board and fresh water and fuel for their fire, and do no work, as their
months. wages had not been paid for thirteen "So the Purser and I go ashore twice a week, after breakfast. Mondays and Thursdays, and on Mondays I get $75 for our food and water for the week: I then buy stores to last Thursday, and on that day bus stores to carry us on to the next Monday. The Chief Engineer, Doctor Veteran Captain and Purser do the cooking, taking it in turns to get up at 5 a.m. to light
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