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The Wreck of the Aden. Illustration for The Illustrated London News, 10 July 1897. A VIEW OF THE ISLAND OF SOCOTRA FROM THE NORTIH-EAST, SHOWING THE ROCKS ON ITS EASTERN COAST, OFF WHICH THE "ADEN " WAS WRECKED. From a sketch by Chevalier Dalton. THE WRECK OF THE ADEN.", The total wreck of the Aden has resulted in the loss of nearly eighty lives of passengers and crew, and in the escape of about half that number of survivors only after seventeen days of exposure and suffering. The Aden a steamship of the P. and O. Company, built at Middlesbrough, of 2517 tonnage, commanded Captain Hill, and carrying passengers, mails, and a cargo of tea, was on her belated way home from Yokohama. She left Colombo on June 1, and in two days time encountered a severe monsoon, the weather for the next six days going from bad to worse.-. 'Then on June 9, at three in the morning, the vessel struck the reef Ras Radresseh, a place of evil name for the navigator in the Indian Ocean, off the Island of Socrata. The engine-room was at once flooded; the cabin lights went out; and in terror-stricken confusion, in the passengers in their night clothes, rushed on deck. A glance showed that the vessel's condition was hopeless. Signals of distress were made, life-belts were served out, and the boats, or such of them as had not already been washed away, were lowered. The life-boat, as soon as it touched water. was immediately swept below with three Lascars in it, and the first officer Mr. Carden. The second officer Mr. Miller, went to rescue in the gig, only to be himself engulfed. The third and last boat was lowered amidst an anguish of apprehension, and, although it nearly capsized, it was righted, and women and children were lowered into it with the exception of two missionary women, Miss Lloyd and Miss Weller, and three brave English wives-- Mrs. Gillett, Mrs. Pearce, and Mrs. Strain-who decided to die, if need be, with their husbands, and who kept their children with them. Thus freighted, and manned by European sailors, the boat left the ship in a tremendous sea and drifted quickly out of sight. Light, eagerly longed for, had come at last. but no abatement of the storm's violence. One by one the many, women, and children on the wreck were washed overboard. Mr. Strain with his wife and two children were the- first to go ; then the missionary ladies; then the baby of Mrs. Pearce, with its Chinese nurse: then Captain Hill, whose leg had been broken earlier in the storm. Famine was threatened when, on the evening of June 3, a vessel the Mayo, of the Royal Indian Marine --anchored under Socotra Island, saw the signals made from the rigging of the derelict by a Lascar, came within a mile, and sent its life-boat, which reached the wreck with the utmost difficulty, and rescued, in two instalments, the survivors. between forty and fifty in all. Meanwhile, of the first boat which put to sea from the wreck no news has been heard at all. The P. and O. Company have, however, organised search expeditions to the neighbouring coasts. |
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