CAPTAIN KENDALL'S STORY.
SHOT INTO THE S*EA IfrHILE GIVING DIRECTIONS. SUBSEQUENT EXERfrONB. 7 QUEBEC. May 31. . Captain Kendall, further examined at the inquest., declared that he gavo tho Order "Full speed ahead in an attempt .to beaoh tho _Dtnp.e6_ of Ireland. Ho ordered . ihe lifeboats out, and directed ,_hat wireless calls for help should be deeoat-hed, but tha Vessel went down too rapidly. Captain KendfcU said he was shot irom tho bridge ' white giving directions. Ho seized a pieco of grating, and later, when nearly unconscious, some people pulled hini iato a. boat. He took command, and rescued numbers of ■stsrug- . filing people. Ho put ten men over the ado attached to ropes, and dragged them, to safety. . Altor-loaving tho first boatload aboard the Storstad. ho returned to tho scene ot tho foundering in another boat, but waa unable to find anyone alive.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14983, 2 June 1914, Page 7
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