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Show RUDDER REPAIRED AT SEA Remarkable Piece of Work Performed by Steamship's Carpenter During Storm. When 450 miles off Newfoundland the steamship Hogland, bound from New York to Gothenburg, Sweden, recently re-cently broke its rudder control during a heavy storm, and for two days and nights drifted about hopelessly, says Popular Mechanics Magazine. All attempts at-tempts to repair the break from the inside in-side proved futile. At last, when all other measures failed, the ship's carpenter car-penter was lowered over the stern into the sea, where, buffeted by the waves, he managed to pass a chain through the rudder and make it fast before finally being knocked unconscious. ' Cables were subsequently secured to the free ends of this and extended for some distance around each side of the boat and carried forward on to the deck, where they were passed about ihe mast and wound on the windlasses used in handling freight. |