CARPENTER AND COOK
TWO VERY GALLANT SEAMEN
LONDON, Dec. 23 "They need not have been in the war, these two men,, but they went down to the sea and died in the sea after rescuing 13 sailors when an enemy submarine struck at a ship three o'clock one morning." Their captain, a British merchant sailor who has reached England after 14 days in a lifeboat, has now told of the gallantry of the two men, a Malayan carpenter and a Jamaican cook. "1 was staring through the nightglasses at the lights on the lifejaefcets of the men in the water," the captain said. "Suddenly the carpenter asked me if he could take the jolly-boat, and then the cook called up from the bottom of the ladder, 'Sir, can 1 go, too?' .1 told them to go ahead, and away they went. In half an hour they were back with seven survivors, but off thev went again into the darkness, and this time they returned with six more men." Their job done, the carpenter and the cook sailed on. But they died on their next voyage, when their own ship was sunk. There was no ship standing by to rescue them.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24189, 3 February 1942, Page 7
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