Renown, a German barque used as a…
December 1888 CE
The survivors climb up the mizzen-mast and are eventually rescued by a small lifeboat that approaches the sinking ship.
The lifeboat, captained by Dorus Rijkers, approaches Renown, and Rijkers jumps out of the boat and climbs the mast.
He and his crew help the endangered men from the mast to the lifeboat, and bring them to dry land.
Of the ship's total crew of thirty, approximately five die in the shipwreck and the remainder are rescued between December 9 and 11.
The heroic rescue ends successfully, and Dorus Rijkers will later be awarded with a gold medal for valor.
All of the surviving crew members will receive a small stipend from the court of The Hague after it is decided that they earned it because Renown was in bad condition when she left the harbor at Hamburg, Germany, one week before the accident.
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