SKILFUL HEROES
BRITISH SEAMEN’? RESCUE AYORK. TRIBUTE by SKIPPER 01' i; ATI, ANTIQUE. {British O flic ia 1 A > rel‘ v '' • ' RUGBY. Jan. R--During a searching judicial inq'»r.v into the disaster to tho French liner L’Atlantiqne at Cherbourg. ( apt ain Sob oof's report. in which lm commented on tho splendid work to the ,-osnio of the survivors particularly praised tho behaviour of the British vessel Eordvnstlc. whose seamen added to their great professional s h'R heroism worthy oi the greatest inward possible in such circumstances. Re states. — “While other resene hoars hold ofT at 500 yards from the burning wreck, a boat from the hoidcastle approached to within 100 yards : ,ud picked up men without lifebelts who otherwise would have perished. This example induced others to approach, and in this way almost all who were unable to leave the ship were saved.” The conduct, of the seamen on fho Dutch ship Achilles is also singled mi! for special praise. .
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11833, 14 January 1933, Page 5
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159SKILFUL HEROES Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11833, 14 January 1933, Page 5
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