Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-12-07 | Page 14 | Salt Lake Seaman Rescues Aviators

L ELAND HYAMS of Salt Lake, gunner's mate in convoy service, who goes under disabled seaplane ; in heavy sea and sets safety pius 1 on depth bombs, after rescuing six , j aviators from helpless macluue. j s r h ' f V... SALT LAKE SEAMAN RSGIJESAflJTOI15 Leland Hyams Sets Safety Pins on Plane's Bombs During Heavy Sea. A Salt Lake seaman, , eland Hyams, a gunncr'a mate on one of the Hteamtdiips in the convoy service, recently aided in rescuing six aviators from a disabled seaplane and, despile a heavy sea and strong wind, went under the machine on the water and set the firing pins on its cargo of depth bombs. It will be recalled re-called Secretary Daniels warmly commend com-mend d the bravery of a seaman for a like feat and the man was decorated tor gallantry. Mr. Hyams's brother. Harold Hyams, member of a. field artillery regiment, regi-ment, is in a hospital in France recovering recov-ering from influenza. Mr. Hyams's loiter, modestly describing the thrilling rescue, follows: "On .November 5, at about o a. m., off the eastern coast, the lookouts spied something in the water about a mile on our starboard bow. looking, in the early light, like a submarine. A general alarm was sounded and I whs up and had iny guns and gun crew ready for action. "But as we drew near we found the object to be one of our large seaplanes, which .was disabled on the water. We got a boat over the side and took six men off the plane. We made- a line fast lo the machine, but a heavy sea -was running, run-ning, so il was not long before the line gave way. "We atarted Hie boat on its return trip and when it had approached to within 100 yards of the plane one of the officers offi-cers we had rescued informed us there were depth bombs aboard it, none of which had their safely pins secured. 'I had some job getting under the plane in the heavy sea to set tho pins, knowing that the task was none loo safe. On account ac-count rf the strong wind and heavy .sea it required just three hours to get the plane in tow again." ,