Captain of the Ebba - Tells of Rescue of Survivors in a Boat. - On arriving at Barry, about nine o'clock, Captain Charles F. Benson, master of the steamer Ebba. which rescued the chief and third engineers (Aitken and Bevan), and picked up the dead body from the water-logged boat, reported the circumstance to the authorities at the pier-head. In an interview with Captain Benson and the pilot in charge of the steamer, Mr. C. E. Bennett, 25, Plymouth-road, Barry Island, our representative elicited from the captain the following additional narrative:-

"It was blowing half a hurricane off the Nash, when we heard cries for help, and in the darkness we managed to catch sight of a ship's lifeboat with what appeared to be three or four men in it. I called my crew together and asked for volunteers. Five quickly responded, and we endeavoured to get a boat cut This was soon seen to be absolutely impracticable in the terrific seas which were running, as hardly had we launched her before she was filled with water and smashed. Seeing the futility of this, I tied a rope round my waist, gave orders to the officer to work the ship to windward of the boat, and as soon as she was under our lee I jumped in with the rope round my waist.

One of my sailors, Rudolph de L. Arcuspris, did the same. The boat was full of water, and, with our heavy clothes on, we experienced much difficulty in tying ropes round the waists of the men in the boat. A third appeared to be dead, lying face downwards in the water. We hauled them all up, and made the two as comfortable as possible. They were in a greatly exhausted condition, but the third man, evidently a, fireman, appeared to be quite dead before we got him out. We persisted with artificial respiration for two-and-a-half hours, but our efforts were unsuccessful."

Both men rescued were suffering greatly from exhaustion. The third engineer, Bevan, had his knee dislocated through being dashed against the pilot-cutter in the endeavour to take him on board. Bevan was seen by the doctor, and removed to the Town Accident Hospital.

In the Water Two Hours - Complain Against the Colliding Vessel. Both Mr. Aitken, the chief engineer of the Orianda, and Mr. Bevan, the third engineer, were in bed in the chart-room of the Ebba when seen by our reporter.

"I was down below on watch with Mr. Aitken when the collision took place," Mr. Bevan said. "The chief engineer had just sent me up with a message to the captain, and I was going below again when a terrible crash came. Running up on deck, I immediately saw that another vessel had crashed into us amidships. I rushed to the bridge, and endeavoured to undo the lifeboat. This we found we could not do as quickly as we thought, so we all ran aft, and tried to get the other boat out. I cut the ropes, and was proceeding to get her clear, when our vessel gave a big lurch and went under. I dived into the water, and endeavoured to get clear. Something struck me on the head, and, struggling about for some time, I was surprised to see the boat. She was swamped, but I got in, and helped two or three in. The chief engineer was the last, and he appeared greatly exhausted. He said, 'The captain is over there,' but it was impossible for us to help him. There was a lot of wreckage floating about.

One of the men in our boat, a fireman, appeared to be exhausted, and fell with his head in the water. We supported him as long as possible, but were so exhausted ourselves that at last he fell with his head under one of the thwarts. A pilot-cutter appears to have heard our cries, and made several plucky attempts to tack alongside, and succeeded, after several attempts, in taking off three of us. I was very near getting on the cutter myself, the pilot having hold of my wrist and trying to pull me aboard, but a wave coming along he had to let go his hold, my leg becoming jammed between the boats. I scrambled back into the lifeboat, and a little later saw the hull of another steamer, which shouted to us. They tried to launch a boat, but failed, and afterwards got us to leeward of them. The captain very pluckily jumped into our boat at great risk to himself, and, tying a rope round the chief engineer's waist and my own, we were hauled up on deck. I remember nothing after until I found myself in a bunk on board the steamer, which was the Swedish Ebba.

"I cannot speak too highly of the courage of the captain, officers, and crew of this vessel. The steamer that struck us was a big boat. After the collision she stood a long way off."

The Chief Engineer, interposing, said: "Yes; she stood off. We asked them to throw ropes and stand by, but they took no notice of us. We were in the water over two hours before we were picked up."