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Show FLOTSAM HINTS FATE OF VESSEL MIAMI, rta, Nov. M Tropieal radio was advised today to-day the IV aeamesj remaining aboard the British freighter Nol-Hnarton Nol-Hnarton Court, in distress off Haiti, had been rescued, but that the vessel waa a total loss. MIAMI. Fla., Nov. 2 CP A few floating logs and other bits of Jettisoned Jet-tisoned cargo were the only guides Tor searching ships today in a for-lorn for-lorn hunt for the British freighter. Nollington Court, apparent loserin brave three-day righnT reach harbor with a hole ripped in her bull Seventeen sailors were missing with the ship, which had been limping limp-ing toward the safety of Tortuga Island in the Caribbean sea since colliding with a sunken object off Turks island on Tuesday. The 17 were a skeleton crew, left aboard by the steamer Chagres which reached the stricken freighter freight-er Wednesday and rescued 18 men. The Chagres had intended to stand by in case disaster threatened, but lost contact with the Nollington Court in a vicious rain squall. The floating logs, part of the Nollington Court's deck cargo which was tossed overboard to lighten the ship, were sighted last Bight in Windward passage offthe northwest coast or Haiti by the Jamaica Pioneer, one of the searching search-ing ships. The message from the Pioneer to Tropical radio said the logs were a menace to navigation. The Nollington Court, a 000-ton steamer, was bound from Vancouver Vancou-ver to Liverpool via Caribbean porta. |