"EVERY SOUL WAS SAVED."

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16300, 5 August 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

"EVERY SOUL WAS SAVED."

THRILLING STORY OF THE s F A RECALLED.

A thrilling story of the sea is recalled bv the death of Captain Frederick Hamilton Murrell in Baltimore.

Twenty-seven years ago he was in command of the Missouri, bringing cattle from Baltimore to England. In midAtlantic he found the liner Danmark on fire firing signals of distress. She had over 700 people on board, but by throwing his live cattle overboard Captain Murrell was able to accommodate every passenger and sailor of the doomed ship." He then made for the Azores, but tho<=e were the days before wireless, and cable lines were very few, so that with no mean* of ascertaining the facts both ships were for about three weeks given up as lost with all hands. hen the news of the rescue became known Captain Murrell received many tokens of appreciation of his fine work from Europe and America. The King of Denmark bestowed on him a Danish order, and the Kings of Sweden and Koumania gold medals. The Citv of London gave him a silver salver and purse of gold, and Copenhagen and other cities and public bodies presents of plate medals, and addresses, while Bismarck sent him a letter of congratulation The incident formed the subject of the well-known picture. " And everv soul was saved An interesting feature about it was that sacrificing the cargo to save life as Captain Murrell did. was without precedent, and was followed by a modification 01 international law.