SEAMEN WHO CANNOT SWIM.
A survivor from one of the torpedoed ■ships says:— had no men in our boat who could row. Wo very soon learned to row. I had never rowed a boat before, but I can do so now." The smallness of the number of men in our mercantile marine who can handle a rowing boat would surprise the majority of people (says the Chronicle), and those who can handle a sail aro an even smaller band. They set almost no opportunity of learning.' As for swimming, very f>w are experts., and battalions of them cannot uwim a stroke. Just last summer I sailed with a British cargo boat officered bv non-swimmers, and having on board onlv four men in all who believed that, unaided, they could keep themselves afloat.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15948, 19 June 1915, Page 5 (Supplement)
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132SEAMEN WHO CANNOT SWIM. New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15948, 19 June 1915, Page 5 (Supplement)
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