New Britain herald., 1930-04-25
10 Members of Boats Crew, Including Captain, Landed
 Safely-Hulk Still on Fire
OTHER CRAFT SEARCHING
 SOUND FOR SURVIVORS
Lifeboat Upsets Just After Launch ing-One of Men Insists Nearby Steamers Refused to Play Search lights on Water in Effort to Lo- cate Drowning Sailors-Names of Dead Men Not Obtained.

Dead Men Not Obtained.
 Stamford, April 25 R-Sixteen members of the crew of the Long Island sound freighter Thames, ply ing from New York to Bridgeport, burned last night off Sound Beach, were missing this noon and 10 had been saved.
 Nine of the 10 rescued were taken to Providence by the steamer Lex ington and one picked up by an oyster schooner rejoined his family in Bridgeport at last midnight. The hulk of the craft, blackened by fire, was on a reef 700 yards off Tods Point on the Sound Beach shore.
 Craft Still Burning
 At noon today the craft was still burning and coast guardsmen and others were unable to get close to it.
 An soon as it is possible men will go aboard and endeayor to learn if there were men in the pilot house when the steamer hit the reef Among the missing men is Pilot Leonard Hancourt of Seavie avenue, Bridgeport. Up till noon members of his family had had no word from him.
 The Thames left New York for Bridgeport at o'clock last night and fire broke out when it was in the sound off this shore.
 Captain Sherman, who is at Prov idence, was of the opinion that the fire caught near or in the boiler room.
 The shipping list of the crew was supposed to have been made up in New York as the crew signed there for the round trip, but inquiry at the New York office of the Thames River Line company of Bridgeport, brought an answer that the crew list was not available there.
 Seek Missing Men The list was not at Bridgeport Seven coast guard craft from Staten Island and New London were searching the sound between Stam- ford. Bridgeport and Port Jefferson. Long Island, this afternoon for signs or the missing men.
 Although the waters edge for miles was searched this morning and a coast guard patrol boat cruis- ed about the sound, no trace of the missing men was found.
 The fire swept the vessel from which also there were several Small explosions during the night, and there seems little possibility of sal wage of cargo and equipment.
 It seemed evident that the blaz- ing steamer was steered from mid sound by hand, which would ac- count for its having been driven on the reef. MT. and Mrs. Aren Lar sen, both of whom were among the first to sight the Thames afire. from their home, said today they watched the craft through glasses as it came ashore.
 Steered Onto Reef
 Both felt sure that some one was at the wheel. as after it was headed in. with the stern wreathed in flames. it's course did not deviate to any noticeable degree. It cam2 in almost a straight line to the rect It seemed to them, the said, that whoever was at the helm was de- termined to beach the craft.
 Bremen and others who were sent out to the craft during the night found the heat from the steamer so intense they could not get within several hundred feet O. it.
 Nine Land in Providence
 Providence, April 25 (P - The captain and eight other members ol
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