Survivor of "Wing On"

Yacht Traged y

THE sole survivor of the yacht “Wing- On ”, wrecked on the northern coast of Vanua Levu, Fiji, on November 24, Mrs. Fern Thompson, is making slow progress under medical treatment in Suva. Her physical condition is improved, but her mental state is giving anxiety.

Her father is to come from America to take her home.

It will be remembered that two married couples sailed on this little yacht from Los Angeles on August 14 for the Poly nesian islands. Apparently, owing to lack of experience, the yacht was not very well found or equipped.

The yacht missed the various islands for which it was headed, supplies ran out and the four people aboard slowly starved to death.

Mrs. Thompson’s husband died on November 7, and was buried at sea. The yacht eventually drifted quietly onto the rocky coast of Vanua Levu, and there was noticed and boarded by a Seventh Day Adventist missionary, Pastor Ferris.

He found the vessel half full of water, and Mrs. Thompson in a demented con dition, floating in the cabin, keeping her self alive by clinging to the furniture.

The bodies of the captain and his wife, who evidently had died some time pre viously, were also in the water in the cabin.

The missionary rescued Mrs. Thomp son, but the yacht rapidly broke up and disappeared.