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SCALDED FIREMAN SAVED "OFFICERS AND GENTLEMEN" LONDON. Dee. 1 A British merchant ship had been mined. All the crew had left the sinking vessel except the captain and chief officer and an injured Mohammedan fireman who had been severely scalded. Everyone imagined the Mohammedan had been killed, but just as the captain and officer were about to leave the 6hip he climbed out of the engine-room. The two uninjured men gave him the one lifebelt remaining, and as the ship sank they swam with him between them. It was hard work, but the captain and officer kept on for nearly a mile till they were picked up. This, Mr. Arthur Mee, famous London editor, was the sort of thing only gentlemen would do, and the sort of thing gentlemen could not help doing.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24166, 7 January 1942, Page 8
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135LAST LIFEBELT New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24166, 7 January 1942, Page 8
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