HEROISM OF A BOY
By a magnificent display of courage mid endurance Richard Knott, an Enelistb lad of IS, the other day brought his ship safe to port when its captain and mate bad been knocked unconscious by waves. All through the night he held on to. the wheel, no one knowing where the ship was being driven by the storm. Ralph Knott had steered the ship for 36 hours without a rest round Cape Wrath in the North of Scotland until it reached Kyleakln in the Isle of Skye. But for his deed of heroism the ship must have foundered.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 112, 4 February 1933, Page 19
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101HEROISM OF A BOY Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 112, 4 February 1933, Page 19
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