CUP OF TEA FIRST.
COOL WOMAN ON SINKING SHIP LONDON, May 20. "A cup of tea first," was the cool demand of a woman oil a sinking ship, when called by the stewards to put on her lifebelt. When the steamer Lncliram struck a reef of the Inner Hebrides in the small hours of Saturday morning, and began settling down with Oft of water in the hold, a steward rushed to call the only woman passenger, Mrs. McCall, of Tobermory (Argyllshire, Scotland). Instead of hastening to the lifeboat, however, she sat up in her bunk and calmly demanded a cup of tea. Eventually her husband persuaded her to 20 on deck, where she hugged her handbag and waited until the Loehram slipped off the reef and was beached, permitting the rescue of the passengers. Her husband was hurrying to the bedside of- his dying mother, in response to a wireless call, but arrived 20 minutes too late.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 121, 24 May 1932, Page 7
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