Many passengers climbed up on the masts,
but then the ship gave one massive heave backwards, and sank beneath the waves
taking hundreds of people with her. Two men climbed up to the top of the very
highest rigging, and the coastguards tried to rescue them. They climbed up the
rigging and rescued one man, but the other man was even higher up, and they
couldn’t reach him. He was abandoned there because the night was closing in.
The man succeeded in keeping himself above water for 14 hours, and he was
rescued the next morning.
Many passengers climbed up on the masts,
but then the ship gave one massive heave backwards, and sank beneath the waves
taking hundreds of people with her. Two men climbed up to the top of the very
highest rigging, and the coastguards tried to rescue them. They climbed up the
rigging and rescued one man, but the other man was even higher up, and they
couldn’t reach him. He was abandoned there because the night was closing in.
The man succeeded in keeping himself above water for 14 hours, and he was
rescued the next morning.