BRITISH SAILORS
imperishable heroism
GALLANT OFFICER’S SERVICE.
MANY LIVES SAVED
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received September 13, 9.40 a.m. HALIFAX, Sept. 12. Storms lashing tho whole of tho Atlantic coast during tho week once again demonstrated tho imperishablo heroism of British sailors. The second officer of tho English collier Watford loapod into tho raging sea and carried a lino 800 yards through tho blinding surf and made a miraculous landing on tho rocks. Then ho made fast two other lines that were shot ashore by rockets as the crew rigged a brooches buoy by which 87 were safely carried ashore. Tho chief officor, however, was swept out of the buoy by tho mountainous seas and was drawn to his death by tho undertow. Tho ship was a total wreck. The Swedish freighter Odensholm is a total wreck off tho Newfoundland coast.
The North American champion fishing schooner Gertrude Thebaud was crippled by a gale. Two sailors were washed overboard and drowned.
Six fishing craft foundered off Now Brunswick, but thero was no loss of life.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 243, 13 September 1932, Page 7
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176BRITISH SAILORS Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 243, 13 September 1932, Page 7
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