MYSTERIES OF THE SEA
WHY DO MEN GO OVERBOARD? MEMORIES OF AN ADMIRAL. (Per Press Association.) (By Radio). Wellington, July 21. representative of the Australian Press Association on board the flagship Seattle reports : Admiral Coontz, in a conversation referring to the smoothness of ouj* trip from Honolulu, commented on the fact that during his 1908 cruise 16 men went overboard, eight of whom were rescued. On this trip only three men have gone overboard, and all were picked up. The loss of a man overboard from a warship at sea is often inexplicable. Sometimes there is a broken lifeline to give a clue to-the cause, but more often it remains one of the undeciphered mysteries of the sea.
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Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 319, 21 July 1925, Page 5
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