The World - News from April 30, 1987

All but two of 24 crewmen abandoned a Panamanian-registered freighter struggling to stay afloat in stormy Atlantic waters and rode in a lifeboat to a Canadian vessel sent to rescue them, the rescue ship reported. A crewman on the Canadian research ship Hudson said in a ship-to-shore interview that only the captain and radio operator remained on the sinking Skipper One but that they had an inflatable raft ready for their departure. The 14,000-ton ship, carrying a load of scrap iron from Boston to Turkey, sent out an SOS when it began taking on water through a broken hatch in heavy seas and high winds about 1,200 miles east of the Maryland shore.