The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-19
SINKING SHIPS
CREW IS SAVED
IN MID-OCEAN
Giant Ocean Liners Stage
Thrilling Rescue Race
Through Atlantic.
MAURITANIA WINS DASH
Capt. Fried Keeps America
Standing BY as Men
Are Transferred.
By United Press

By United Press
NEW YORK, Nov. 19-The United
States Lines received a message to-
day saying that the crew of the
Swedish steamer Ovidia, had been
rescued, 1000 miles east of Boston.
by the Cunard liner Mauretania, as
high seas pounded at the sinking
vessel.
The message was from Captain
George Fried of the liner America.
famed rescue hero of the Atlantic,
who also went to the aid of the
Ovidia 1t was not said whether
the Ovidia was still afloat.
Fried's message said:
"Ovidia crew now leaving ship in
own boats. Being picked up by
by Mauritania"
Earlier the United States Lines
received a message from Captain
Fried, saying:
alongside Ovidia, waiting de-
cision to abandon ship. She de-
SireS try towing by S. S. Endicott,
which has not arrived yet. Ovidia
listing badly to starboard. Strone
northwest wind; heavy swell run
ming; Mauretania also standing by.s
Wheels Ship to Rescue
The arrival of the America and
the Mauritania alongside the Oyidia
ended dramatic race through the
North Atlantic. On the bridge of
the America was Fried, a seaman
OF international renown who is the
hero of two previous rescues on the
hazardous Atlantic.
Despite the fact the Ovidia had
wirelesSed him that the Endicott
was coming to the rescue. Fried
wheeled his vessel and pushed ii
toward the position given by the
stricken vessel.
The Endicott was closer to the
Ovidia and she also started to the
rescue. When first news of the race.
filtered through it seemed likely that
to the Endicott would go the glory
OF saving the Ovidia's crew.
Mariners reckoned that Fried
could not arrive alongside the Swed.
1sh vessel before 3 D. m.
Apparently no one thought of the
possibility that there might be an
other entrant in the race Of mercy.
Sliding westward on one of her reg
ular voyages came the Mauretania,
former speed queen of the Atlantic,
the fastest liner afloat until the
Bremen and the Europa were built,
Messages indicate the Mauretania
arrived first.
Put on Tremendous Speed
Apparently the America put on
capacity steam and boiled through
the raging north Atlantic at a tre-
mendous speed, because it was esti-
mated that he arrived beside the
OWdia at l p. m.
At the time Fried wirelessed the
United States Lines here the Endi-
colt had not arrived at the scene
OF the rescue.
The radio marine corporation re-
ported first early today that it had
intercepted SOS messages from the
Ovidia saying the vessel was sink
ing.
The Ovidia, of 3,114 registered
tonnage, and built in 1897, was
bound for Cardiff and Hull, Eng
land
The dash of the America toward
the stricken vessel recalled the feats
Of Captain George Fried of that
vessel who has been prominent in
two Atlantic rescues. In January,
1926, Fried, then master of the
Roosevelt, saved twenty-five men
aboard the steamer Antinoe. The
Antinoe sank in the north Atlantic.
Again in 1929 Fried, commanding
the America, went to the aid Of the
steamship Florida and saved thirty
two persons. Subsequently. ne re-
ceived municipal reception in New
York in honor of his feats.