SENSATIONAL.
.SCENE AT A WRECK
THE CAPTAIN AND THE COOK
PEE PRESS ASSOCIATION Wellington, Malich 12. Several members of the crew of the wrecked steamer Red Pine-arrived in v elhngton last night. When thesliip struck, I:lie look-out man rushed t<) the forecastle and alarmed the seeping crew. As the men lol't the ship. Captain Eden called ■ each by ■liiiuio. and found the cook missing. Captain Eden, despite the fact that the water was creeping up foot by loot and was just on the deck line, rushed forward and found the cook asleep in his hunk. He would probably have been drowned like a rutin a (ran but lor the captain's action. As both men sprang from the deck the vessel took a final plunge and sank. The mcii speak in the highest terms of Captain Eden'.s coolness in a trying situation.
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2024, 13 March 1913, Page 2
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