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“FOAM” ENJOYEDVOYAGEiniklord.11ITIVnrt'*,iynNew York, Oct. 13—Shanghaied on their own Bhip for more than two months, forced to transport arms and ammunition for the Nicaraguan reb-els, and, under penalty of death, to take part in the Nicaraguan revolution,. thirteen weary sailors have finally returned safely to New York.• The unlucky, crew • signed the ship’s articles of the trawler Foam, on July 28, .bound ostensibly for San Diego. A stopover at Port of Mexico enabled them. to. get sho,re leave- Returning to the vessel at night, strAngo activities greeted them. No lightB wore on the dock where the Fbam was tied up and groups of swarthy I men were loading. and packing boxes I Into the ship’s hold. * ■ ' I“We’re .loading ammunition,” sec-1 ond mate A. Denglevert said to his I companion, John Helland, second en?| gineer, who tpld the tale of . piracy':] and filibustering. The crew remon-’ j strated with the captain G. • S. Tsip-I kin, but, tpey say,-were persuaded'tor v stay until the ship reached BiueJ fields, Nicaragua, where he promised. 1 them they would be paid off and'te^l celve passage to New York. Ratheri] than be stranded the crew remaHicd.*] Thirty passengers- ; boarded the'I trawler at Port of Mexico. • In . thej night the passengers’’ mounted n?l 37 MM. gun on the Foam's1 forecastle?] and appeared in the uniforms of Ni-jj cnraguan rebels. Two wore gener*] al’s uniforms. On‘August 15, • thb I United States flag was lt;takpn dowttj and machine guns brought out. Atih^* tl:e same time the crew i^ere sworn']** in as members of the Nicaraguan ] Liberal party, according to Holland's J an story. .1 daReaching Nicaragua, troops were] landed at Bragman’s Bluff and - tbe j al town was attacked by land and sea;|ce That night the rebels ttjok the tow-rtlth and the Imprisoned crew was forced I At to work- the vessel to • Rio Grande ]nlt; aid to Bluefieids Bluff, where heavy ac firing was going on. • ! tbThen- the Foam ran aground. The I in rebels1 abandoned her and the crew I w was left practically without food, j In •For three weeks the 13 men lived bn I be coffee, a- little rice and cocoanutsjp( which they picked up on the beacfr; j hi Finally the United States cruiser I an Rochester was sighted. A lifeboat I. was fitted ’out and' eight of the cpew 1 r, i-owed. the' eight miles to whore the I w sliijj’ lay at anchor. The captain of I aE the-Rochester sent them on1 the :de-|as s’royer -Smith to -Colon, where the! ^ United States consul supplied themLa with passage to New York. • jw
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Medicine Hat News
Medicine Hat, Alberta, CA
Wed, Oct 13, 1926
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