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Escape from
Ordeal at Sea
.ADELAIDE; - Monday.— Hag
gard and unkempt,-: and bear
ing . obvious . traces of their
ordeal, three, men were
brought ashore by water police
to-day, after their 35-ton fish-
ing trawler had- been buffeted
by storms since . it lef-t. Port
Lincoln for Port Adelaide, on
April 6. -
Until Yorketown police re- .
ported last week ;that Hie.
vaccai hail rallA/1 ih»rn. . it ;
-had- been thought .the j vessel;
: hadbiffyi ii . the ' hurri-
cane tbii prfevibus week" end: 7
The men were brought
ashore after they had fired dis
tress signals and flares. They
said that, during " the storm
they had been struck by heavy
seas,- and a tall shaft coupling,
had developed a fault. For, four
days and nights, buffeted by
Intermittent storms, the men
worked to repair the damage.
Two of the three men
stood watch because of the
heavy going, and all were
exhausted from lack of sleep
and food.
After drifting ashore on a
reef and later on a sand bar,
making only a few miles a day,
the fishing. vessel finally drifted
near enough to the - shore near
Outer Harbor for their distress
signals to be seen and answered
by the water police.
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