BRITISH SEAMEN

Feilding Star, Volume 10, Issue 3931, 14 January 1933, Page 6

BRITISH SEAMEN

Behaviour Praised GALLANT WORK OF RESCUE i SKILL AND HEKOISM THE ATLANTIQUE S FIKE (Aust. and N.Z. C*»Me.) Hugby, Jan .12. During tin* searching judicial inquiry into the disaster to the French luxury Hirer Atiantiquc, at C’liertxmrg. Captain School's rvixJrt, in which he commented on the splendid work done by the ships which came to the rescue of the survivors, was particularly prafsing of the behaviour of the British vessel Fordcast e, whose seamen added to their great professional skill and heroism and were worthy of the greatest reward possible in such circumstances. He stated that, while the other rescue boats held off at 500 yards from the burning wreck, a boat from the Fordcastle approached to within 100 yards an l picked up men without lifebelts who would otherwise have perished. This example induced others to approach, and in this way almost all who were able to leave the ship were saved. The conduct of the seamen of the Dutch ship Achilles is also singled out for special praise.