Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-11-12
LONE SURVIVOR
TELLS OF FATE
Osh err Of Ship Clings
To Wreckage For
Three Days

EOrtEhA, Sdl.s NOV. 1z-t6F-
Jorgen M. Greve. first officer OF
the Lumber Schooner Brooklyn.
which sank off Humboldt Bay Sat
urday with all hands. lived today
TO tell how he drifted more than 10
hours on a bit OF wreckage In q
gale-maddened sea.
re was rescued by the crew Of
the fishing boat, two sisters, five
miles from shore slightly north OF
the place where the Brooklyn sank.
Csreve was clinging grimly TO wreck
zee and life. semi-concious. bleed
ns from numerous cuts inflicted
III the constant battering Of angry
seas and with his clothes in tatters.
re was taken to a hospital where
physicians said he would live. He Is
the only known survivor Of the
crsw of IS.
Last night he revived sufficiently
70 tell a graphic story OF the dis
aster and the aRonizing hours that
followed. lie told Of the mountain
Gus wave striking the bow Of the
lite schooner. making II impos-
sibie TO steer. Something must have
happened 70 the engine. then. he
said. He related how the cook. a
steward. a fireman and the engineer
launched the one remaining life
beat but couldn't move IL because
Of the water shipped.
The pilot house. then the super
structure were torn awav as gigantic
seas Stamped the vessel. he said.
Victims Glossy Eyed
The next time the Brooklyn
turned over, she came keel up, he
said. The men climbed the side
and caught hold OF the keel. l saw
the skipper Captain T. j. Tufes-
son in the water and some of the
men alongside Of him. They looked
CLASSY eyed
A wave struck the hull. sweeping
Greve and his mates into the water.
Creeve's three days adrift. with
cut food or water. began when he
swan to a piece Of bulkhead torn
from the Brooklyn.
Il swan as far IS I could from
the wreckage," he said. Later I
found a piece Of bulkhead. four feet
wide and eight feet long with a
beam six by six inches standing out
two feet on each side. Then I took
in two pieces Of one by four inch
plank. I used them for paddles"
lie said he was carried opposite
Trinity Head. 90 miles from the
scene OF the wreck. Saturday night.
He could see the lights Pickering
and yelled until ! thought my
lungs would burst. but no n
seemed to hear me"
IN Knocked Unconscious
Sunday at daybreak he vas op-
posite the old whaling station at
Trinity and summoned all his
strength 10 paddle to shore only to
be fought back by currents.
waves piled over him, throwing
him against the vreckage. break
ing his skin and tearing his
clothes.
Il don't remember much else,
he finished. exhausted
Meanwhile. in San Francisco. MS
wife, Mrs. Louise Greve. q re-
fused TO relinquish the idea that
'the sea can't kill him" Twice be-
fore. she said. the seas had him
and his boat in its grip. but he
canle away alive. In 1922 the
schooner Cincle Maloney crashed on
rocks near Albion. The crew svam
ashore while Greve waited through
the night. With dawn. seeing the
boat was fast and In peril OF break
inn UP. he too. swan the three
miles in oil skins and boots. Last
YEAR. his boat Prentis lost a propel-
Ter near Coos Bay. Ore. It drifted
as hours before a sister ship came
10 It's aid and toned II into pert.