FIRE ON THE RENOWN

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 83, 29 June 1927, Page 1

FIRE ON THE RENOWN

SAVIOUR OF THE SHIP STOKER'S LONELY FIGHT *V Cable.— Press Association.—Copyright LONDON, Tuesday. A representative of the "Daily Chronicle” at Portsmouth says he is a«e to give the first authentic account , “ ow a stoker named Jeffries saved “6 Renown from disaster on May Jeffries had charge of D hold. He jj ß attending to the water feeding - “® n a cry of “Fire!” was raised. In ? * ns tant tongues of flame were flash“B across toe hold. o*l. sprayed from the pipes which d rom , * le s P are tanks to the —*Ne-bottomed tanks that feed the ," nace ' w as dropping on to the hot nor, igniting and sending up great f,. eets °i- flame. The hold became a torn ace. An order was given for all the men i . ascen d. but Jeffries did not obey. ! he seized a hose and drenched jtotoelf with water. Then lie rushed a water-valve and increased the I ' er supply to the boilers, making an Plosion impossible. RED-HOT VALVES thmi! Jeffries shut off six oil valves, f to ~ the 7 were red-hot. He had .we the hose on the valves before 8 could touch them. Went to A* 3 difficulties, the lights torn ° an| J only the glow- from the on.w. es rtli eved the darkness. No i to,.? I®* 1 ®* CAat Jeffries had been fight•liot * ? ames Aelow until he appeared fitted * hatchway, his work accomk° (es were turned on to the Until ,f s ’ an A water was poured in Thn rf re was nine feet in the hold, at and Duchess of York were when the cry of fire was •tokeh tJ* Was midnight before the < Wort was unsealed and repair Iji ” as commenced. -us m J? eßßmat cs of Jeffries regard stoVn. fc.® ®aviour of the ship, but the Wits , S'hiSelf dismisses the affair he nip- , ru of the shoulders, and says ® e fely did his duty.—A. and N.Z.