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The Sovinto broke in two about two hundred yards from shore. In some miraculous manner a crew member reached shore at night, went to the first house he could find and pounded on the door. He was unable to speak English so kept yelling "barque". The man in the house responded.

In the morning sailors could be seen clinging to sections of the vessel while the storm still raged. There was no possi— bility of launching a boat. In the forenoon a sailor came ashore on a life buoy but no one knew him and his language was foreign.

Later on, a boat left the ship but it capsized. Some of these men were badly injured. Two doctors arrived from Souris.

Upon the bank, a crowd of men, most of them followers of the sea, gazed helplessly with heavy hearts. A sailor was seen walking to and fro on the slippery upturned side of the forepart of the vessel, waving his hands, and shouting for help. For nearly sixty hours, without food or rest he had clung to the wreck, holding fast to a line. The storm showed no sign of abating. The fury of the sea was increasing. Finally he seized a large plank, clasped his arms around it, and leaped into the sea. He was caught by the current and whirled towards the larger part of the wreck, then a hugh wave lifted him up and bare him shoreward. He miraculously steered the plank towards an opening between the rocks. A rope was flung to him from the crowd and he caught it. He was the last man taken off the Sovinto. He could not be reached on the vessels forepart when Austin Grady and Duncan Campbell of East Baltic rescued the two men remaining on the other part of the ship. This was November 8th.

The steamer, Stanley, left Souris in an attempt to rescue the survivors with her lift—boat but heavy seas prevented her from getting around East Point.

The survivors were presented with a purse from the officers and men of the Stanley, Minto, and Brant in Charlottetown before the men left for Chatham, New Brunswick.

Thousands of sticks of deal were strewn along the shore.

Austin Grady and Duncan Campbell received medals for saving the dog on the Sovinto, from the Humane Society, and a medal of gold each from the Carnagie Fund, in the shape of a life buoy. There was also a Life—Saving Fund for these two men who risked their lives to save the survivors of the Sovinto.

Assiniboine

The Canadian Destroyer, Assiniboine went aground off South Lake in 1945 about 150 yards from the shore in seven feet of