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SI KVtVl s r\ P1IOO.N Albert Rowley, Jr , 20, Narrows Park is home on furlough after surviving Uw typhoon that capsized his ship, the destroyer Spence, south of Luzon on December 18 There were only twenty-four survivors of the crew of 347 men, Rosiey s battle against the sea is told in a story on this pageAlbert Rosley Relates Battle for Life while Adrift at SeaK V I KAGO BRUST, Jr.The dramatic story of Torpedo- ’ man Third Class Albert Rosley, Jr., . 20, of Narrows Park, who survived! j the capsizing of the destroyer Spence in a typhoon south of Lu- j zon on December 18, was unfolded ' last night Rosley, one of twenty-four survivors of the ship's crew of 347 men, is now spending a thirty-day fur- 1 lough at the home of his parents, , Mr, and Mrs. Albert A. Rosley, Nar- I rows Park, and his story revealed | how lie and eighteen other men ! ;clung to a lloater net of rope and cork while winds of more than 110 miles an hour and waves seventy-five and eighty feet high beat against them and took eleven lives before the storm subsided.three more men on the net died before a rescue wa.s effected by a | destroyer escort two days and two nights after the Spence capsized Only Rosley and five other men of the twenty who were on the net.’ survivedA seventh .survivor clinging to a forty millimeter ammunition tank and a five-inch powder tank was picked up by a destroyer, The remaining seventeen survivors were rescued from a life raft by a des-trover escortLike a CorkSurvivor of Destroyer Capsized By Typhoon Tells Dramatic StoryA veteran of more than two years of sea duty in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, Rosley said the de-jstroyer Spence was retreating to fuel after an air strike on Luzon |when the typhoon struck suddenly; on December 17 The fuel supply* was down to about ten per cent of being empty arid the Spence was “light and like a cork in the stormy seaWe rode the typhoon on the seventeenth and on the morning of December 18 got a report that the worst part of the storm would be between 10:30 a m and noon, Rosley related No one expected the vessel to cap-jsize, said Rosley, who was on watch in the torpedo shack on the main deck when the height of the storm 1 struck.i “The ship rolled so much the waves tore off the whale boat lashed I , I twelve feet above the deck, Rosley recounted, adding that he saw it 1 float pas', as he looked out a hatch.Felt Wind Pressure Waves were seventy-five and
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Cumberland News
Cumberland, Maryland, US
Wed, Feb 28, 1945
Page 16
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