A WIFE'S DEVOTION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5358, 18 January 1879, Page 7

A WIFE'S DEVOTION.

Duiunc; a gain in tho Atlantic a few days ago, tho American ship JJridgewater, from London to New York, sprang a leak ami lost her foretopmast. She becamo wholly unmanageable, aud was beliverl to be sinking. The captain ami crew were rescued by the German barque Consul-Platin, from New York to Plymouth, with a of oil-cake. A tremendous sea was running at the time, but after an interval of some hours the captain of tho American vessel resolved, if possible, to recover hia ship. His chief officer and crew of five men volunteered for tho dangerous duty, and were on the point of departing on their perilous mission, when a romantic episodo occurred. The wife of the chief officer declared that her husband should not go without her, and in answer to all remonstauces, simply cxclaimed, " Wc will die tonother." With tho tenacity of her sex, slio clung fo her resolve, and was the first person lowered into a boat, which many believed was destined to he swamped. Such, however, was not its fate; the boat and its crcw ultimately succeeded in reaching the wreck. A supply of provisions • was also taken on board, and in the end tho Bridgewater was brought into Qneenatown, where she now remains.