BRITISH SAILORS SAVED

Heroic Rescue by the Crew of an American Fishing Boat

GLOUCESTER, Mass., Feb. 17, 1903 — The little fishing schooner Kineo came into port yesterday with the shipwrecked crew of the British schooner E. H. Foster of St. John N.B; abandoned Saturday.

The Foster was well out in Massachusetts bay when she was caught in a northwestern gale. She lost all her sails besides springing a leak. The helpless vessel drifted before the gale for half a day, the water continually gaining on the pumps despite the efforts of the crew. Finally the Kineo hove in sight, and seeing the signals of distress bore down on the Foster. The sea was running high, and Captain Streams of the Kineo called for volunteers. Every man on the little boat stepped forward, and the first one who jumped into his dory had a finger cut off by the boat’s suddenly bumping against the Kineo. Iwo dories were finally launched and the transfer made in the teeth of the gale. The vessel was picked up off Capo Cod by the Baltimore steamer Howard and towed into Boston.

Sources

Los Angeles Herald
 

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