RESCUE AT SEA.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 279, 22 November 1913, Page 17

RESCUE AT SEA.

' I SAVED BT WIRE.LF.Si<. I OPERATOR'S HEROISM. j A thrilling story of rescue at sea is Soldi by Isaac Jones, captain of the Hrlitish ] .'reight steamer Templemore, of the John-| »:im line, which was burned up and sank I y«i Miles off Virginia Cape the Srst week in October. <.ap;ain Jones and his crew of fifty-three j .j.ve their lives to the heroism of the wire.ess operator of the 'Pemplemore and I'ajv tain George Boldt. of the Hamburg-Ameri-cas line's steamship Arcadia, who received iht! "s.d.s." signal of. distress and steamed ai fall speed for the scene of th» disaster. According to Captain .Tones, the tire was started by spontaneous combustion In some bales of cotton amidships, and the smoke' '«< first seen at 11.50 on Monday night.' Twenty minutes later the wireless operator. | ward Kmauue!, Hashed <nu the first Elg- j iiul of distress, which was pi.?k-'.l up by! tJe operator of the Arcadia, •fifty-two miles away. Efforts to put out the blaze were' soon abandoned, the crew taking to the :-oats. The lire Quickly destroyed the dynamo operating the wireless apparatus, but. with the aid of candle-light Kniamiel got his reserve storage batteries working, j and for another fifteen minutes continued | to teil the Arcadia the exact posi'ion of the burning ship. I "My men appeared to be unmindful of the I .'anger." sai.l Captain Jones, "and fought I rhe blaze until it w C s foolhardy to conJ i:.uc. Emanue! slue!; to his post until the' -'.orape batteries refused to work, and he! aii'l I were '.lie last To leave the doomed i vessel. J "iiur experience in three small boats was I j -he worst »t all. A storm -was raging and ! I rhe -wind nearly upset our slender .raft { \ n.v .". a.m. ..11 Tuesday, "'i" , the Ar.-ndi.i | J a.-rix.-.i. ii.any of the cr"w were seasick and , exhausted. Some were so weak that they !-a.l 1.. i,» i:r-e<l oit of the boats. When Hie Arm. ln etarteil towards Baltimore t!)p Tetnp!cu),-,r... was a2::-Ui from i.mv to!