TRAINING SHIP ABLAZE

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8680, 13 March 1914, Page 5

TRAINING SHIP ABLAZE

ALL THE BOYS RESCUED. fly Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright LONDON, March 11. The Wellesley training shij) at North Shields is ablaze. All the _ 290. hoys have been rescued. PLUCKY INCIDENTS. SHIP BURNED TO WATER’S EDGE. , „ . . (Received March 12, 11.5 p.m.) LONDON, March 12. ” The Wellesley was one of England’s “wooden walls,” formerly the Boscawen, and was'launched in 1844. There were three hundred hoys in the schoolrooms, and they learned of the danger by the firebell summoning the vessels in the river to help. They quickly loft the classrooms,..,, Tho elder boys manned the pumps, while the younger ones were marshalled on the upper deck ready to lower the boats. Smoko was penetrating the decks, and some of the lads had to face-the' ” suffocating smoke, but they were reluctant to leave the pumps. Tho officers compelled them to do so. ” There were numerous plucky mci- ' r ’ dents. One boy ran to the captain s quarters, picked l up a baby and carried it to the deck. . Four hoys in the carpenter’s shop were imprisoned and unable to pass owing to iron bars. Rescuers in a boat cut a hole in the woodwork and the hoys crawled out. The ship was burned to the water’s edge and sank.