A GALLANT RESCUE.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13277, 17 January 1911, Page 5

A GALLANT RESCUE.

The Imperial Merchant Service Guild bps/.received from the Royal Humane Society and bronze medal and a testimonial <uk>vcUumi for presentation -to Captain master of the -/British this 'vessel was lying,at anchor in New. Yprk Harbour jone of the sailors fell off the: ship’s gangway on to the quay and then, into the water. . Captain Kirkwood, <is,> hearjng -the cry raised, ran on deck dressed/ in'sleeping garb, and on learning the canse.of the disturbance threw a lifcbnoy ufto. water and jumped in after the',m)i^7 : --’A r strong tide , was running at the .time, , the river was full of floating ice, and / the ' thermometer registered 14 de-grees-^ffrost. - ;Ky this time the sailor was some yards away from the ship, under one of the jetties, but the captain pushed his way through /the ice and reached the man, who was unconscious, just as he was sinking. ■ The. officers of' the shin proceeded to the rescue with ropes; A line was, passed td-the captain, who was so benumbed with cqld .that he was almost unable to make, it -fast Ito the man’s body, but after a struggle he succeeded in doing so. Botli iqen, wire' then hauled out of the water together and taken on board, but it was dpt until the seaman had been restored to consciousness that Cantain Kirkwcod allow ed any attention to be paid to himself. This rfscue 'is .all. the more remarkable owing to. the fact that Captain Kirkwood could dot -swim/