Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-12-25 | Page 3 | Ship Reaches 2 Disabled Boats

SHIP 2 I DISABLED BOATS BOAlS SEATTLE Wash Dec 25 AP Radio advices received hero here this morning said the coastwise steamer Northwestern had llad arrived alongside two helpless ships the toe Starr Star and the Roosevelt sevelt off oft MIddletown island Alaska and was preparing to rescue the crew o of the Roosevelt which was drifting toward a dangerous dan dan- dangerous dangerous dan dan- reef The Roosevelt is a sea tug and carries a crew of twelve to fifteen men The Starr with twenty-three twenty passengers and a crew of a dozen was disabled in in a storm about ten days ago and the two ships have been fighting rough water for several several several sev sev- eral days with the Roosevelt in the therole therole therole role of or rescuer The Starrs Starr's anchor was reported holding In sixty fathoms fathoms fathoms fath fath- oms of water Radio reports said that the Roosevelt was but eighteen miles from the reef The Northwestern V was s pumping oil overboard in in an effort to calm the seas sufficiently to get a lifeboat to the Roosevelt It was deemed useless to attempt running a towline to the sea tug When the Starr first fist 1st encountered trouble she sho was towed by the steamer Alameda to Seward The Roosevelt then took the towline and was trying to pull the Starr to the thele le lee o of Kyak island ahead of a storm when the line lino broke yesterday In att attempting to get a new line to the Starr It became entangled In the Roosevelt's propeller rendering the tug helpless