SWAM AWAY FROM A FULL LIFEBOAT
Missing Canadian LONDON, September 30. A member of the crew of the torpedoed American-owned Pink Star swam up to the only lifeboa't he saw. It was full, so he waved good-bye and swam away again. He was James Cassidy, of New Brunswick, and the story of his gallantry was related by the master of the ship, Captain Mackenzie, who landed yesterday with 24 survivors at a British port. “Cassidy’s act was the finest thing I have ever seen,” he said. "We did nut see him again.” Newspapers describe Cassidy qs "a gallant gentleman,” his action recalling Captain Oates’s gesture during Scott’s last expedition in the Antarctic.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 6, 2 October 1941, Page 8
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