OCEAN RESCUE
CAPTAIN HONOURED
BURNING OF TRICOLOR
A young master well known in the New Zealand trade, Captain Hugh MacKinnon, of the British tanker Eclipse, was recently presented with a handsome solid silver cup by Dr. Andrew O. Nelson, of San Pedro, Vice-Consul for Norway, in recognition of his rescue of sixteen passengers on April 7 of last year from the Norwegian motorship Tricolor, then ablaze 1000 miles east of Yokohama. The presentation took place at Los Angeles.
. Captain MacKinnon, then on his second trans-Pacific voyage as master of the British steamer Yarraville, raced to the blazing Tricolor, lowered boats in a heavy sea at night, and transferred men, women, and children, while the Tricolor crew stayed aboard and eventually conquered the blaze. The rescued persons were later landed at Los Angeles.
Artistically engraved, the cup bears a representation on one side of a ship in distress and on the opposite side the prow of a rescue ship and its. lifeboat crew, both on a storm-tossed sea. •It bears also the flag and coat-of-arms' of Norway and the .inscription: "From the Norwegian Government to Captain Hugh MacKinnon, British s.s. Yarraville, for assistance rendered the m.s. Tricolor, of \Tonsberg, in the Pacific Ocean, in April, 1936."
Dr. Nelson, in making the presentation, complimented Captain MacKinnon upon his prompt service and efficiency, stating that his Government did not overlook deeds of courage and service rendered its citizens.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 60, 8 September 1937, Page 13
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235OCEAN RESCUE Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 60, 8 September 1937, Page 13
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