BLAZING SHIP SAVED
BRITISH CORVETTE’S CREW SEVEN-HOUR STRUGGLE (British Official Wireless.) ft 1 a.m.) RUGBY, April 9. For seven hours the British corvette Lavender lay alongside a blazing Panamanian freighter while the corvette’s crew fought and extinguished the fire. The freighter had been on fire for two days in the Caribbean Sea and, when the corvette arrived, the bridge and superstructure were already gutted. While the corvette’s crew shifted depth charges and ammunition below the decks to safer positions, Commander J. Whayman, then in command of the Lavender, brought his ship alongside the blazing freighter. The fire was gradually extinguished and the freighter was towed by tugs to harbour. For this daring exploit, Commander Whayman, together with four others of the corvette’s personnel, have been mentioned in dispatches.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21066, 10 April 1943, Page 3
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