A GREAT SEA CAPTAIN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17730, 15 September 1919, Page 6

A GREAT SEA CAPTAIN

exploits in LUSITANIA and MAURETANIA. Comrrv-.ndor D. Dow, who saved the Lnsi» 1 if om capture by a German warship and Mauretania from being torpedoed, recently retired from the Cunard service alter 't6 years in the mercantile marine and tne navy. Commander Dow sailed from New York the Lusitania at midnight on *, ° ,4, 1914, and next day, by heading in o a fog bank and changing- course, eluded. "him Cllo \vi which tried to intercept • V , : commanding- the Mauretania hi a t . r . p ] , n tho Mediterranean in 1915 th i Wi^ e a torpedo, and flunpf J h , ard , Tho torpedo missed lti3 ship by barely sft. Jan ai vl- Commander Dow's in rh« T n the "Stars and Stripes" VI lh ,° Lusitania provoked much controversy. QrL t , cn warned of the pre- - i^ bIM - rin( i s ' and instructed to hoist " fP 1 flag m the danger zone. Nothing Uffi • 1° - a moro distasteful than the latter instruction, but he realised that his eohngs must be subordinated to the safety n J™. passell sers, and, having 400 prominent icans on board, besides valuable U.S. mail, he hoisted ijjeir flag: D ? w - was . on leaTe '"'ten - loss of tue Lxisitania was announced. Among other exploits. Commander Dow crossed the Atlantic three times in 22 days, ? n , ol \ e . these yoyages broke the r , the Mauretania across in four days 10 hours 41 minutes. In a long career he never lost a ship.