LIFE-SAVING.
SEA CAPTAIN’S GREAT RECORD. London, Sept. 11. Captain Day, of the Kinfauns Castle, which rescued part of the Hammpnia’s company, has a magnificent life-saving record. When in command of the Cawdor Castlo he rescued the crew of a foundering Dutch steamer in the North Sea, also the crew of tho French sailing ship Mauritius. During the war he commanded the hospital ship Glenart Castle. He saved two aviators and rescued the crew of the torpedoed Welsh Prince, in the Mediterranean. When his own vessel was mined in the channel Captain Day successfully transferred 525 wounded men to other vessels ad then safely navigated his own sinking ship into Portsmouth.— (A. and N.Z.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 231, 12 September 1922, Page 6
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