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THE VIKING DISASTERICAPTAIN PETTERSEN’S FATE.£a8CDIVES AFTER WIFE IN WINTRYfcEA.ITHE CREW SAVED.iFrom Oqr Special Correspond eat)SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 20.His barque, cut down in a gale on a pitch, dark midwinter night off Cape Horn, Captain Hans C. Pettersen, of the Viking, saw his wife swept away as ho was trying to lift her to the bows of the barque, which had struck his vessel. He dived into the sea after her, and neither was seen again. His crew scrambled aboard the other barque, the Atlas,of the Standard Oil Company^ fleet.Word of llio drowning of the captain and his wife and of the loss of the Viking, which wag of Norwegian registry, was received by Philip Rupreckt, marine superintendent- of the Standard Oil Company, in a letter from Captain Dart, of the Atlas. The Atlas is now at BioJaneiro.Captain Dart writes that on Juho 5 the Atlas, deep with. 5000 tons of coal for the uae of the nav}*- at San Francisco, struck and sank the Viking on her way here from Auckland, New Zealand, with kauri gum, off Cape Horn. It was a bitterly cold night of the Antarctic winter, with a gale blowing. The Atlas, a steel vessel, was the stronger, and cut a terrible gash in the Viking.Seeing there was no chance to save his vessel. Captain Petterscn called to his men to save themselves, which they did by climbing over the bows of the Atlas as the two barques were locked together. The captain stayed to help his wife, butjust as she was clambering over the wreckage, a sea swept her overboard. In an instant he jiimped after her*So badly was the Atlas damaged thatCaptain Dart returned to Rio Janeiro to make repairs. The survivors of the Viking were shipped to their homes in Norway on a liner.Inis marks the second disaster Id the only two American vessels chartered tocarry eoai. to ihlt;t Pacific corst for the navy. The Shenandoah, which left Baltimore on March 2S, was badly damaged hy gales, and has put into Melbourne, Australia, for repairs.31
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Auckland Star
Auckland, Auckland, NZ
Mon, Sep 30, 1907
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