Show I Shy Hero of Res Rescue ue of 7 M Men at t I II Sea Eludes Cameramen in Port PO PORT POtT tT ARANSAS Tex Doc 27 7 UP UP Captain Captain S. S A. A Simmons vet vet- eran Cran mariner who Insisted ho was merely following his lino lIn of ot duty when he directed the rescue of or seVen even men from LL Ufe oat In Jn a a. gale driven sea sea- was tho the guest o of honor at aLthis this port today It It was Just one of ot those things that might happen to anyone anyone- he said Mid as ho eluded photographers and andin in Interviewers Seven oven men picked up from win wiri- try waters of oC the Gulf CuI of or Mexico during a storm h had d other of oC the rescue however Our schooner the ti-ic WJ W. W J. J Cone Colic f foundered twelve miles tulles hut butof out or Tam Tam- pa Captain C. C R H. of ot the there re rescued rca crew sal said She capsized and sank in a- a afew 8 few minutes We WP barely h had d tim to take o a L yawl ya with a Do few of ot our personal b belongings belong belongings long long- ings We Wo were lu helpless lpt s In the tho little craft and every wave Wac threatened to bring disaster The water swept we-pl over us and we w had about decided we we were wao doomed to the tho Three ships up in nine nineteen teen hours and our provisions pro were running low Tho The sighting of r the yawl al was de described de- de scribed by members of o tho the crew cr w of tho the Cities Service o oil on tanker Denver Don Den ver vcr commanded by Captain Sim Sim- mons Wo We noticed it St foundering abo about t t two o miles off oft our port side one OD o ot or i ithe the Ithe seamen seamen said Maid Captain Simmons 1 steered us us straight for the stricken n nC C craft and directed tho r rescue cuo as ns the tanker drew alongside Tho survivors rs Captain Myles Austin Brent Henry A. A Williams Berney Nixon Alston Ferdinand and und James E. E Carter praised their rescuers and said they spent a Do happy Christmas 8 ns as as guests of ot Captain Simmons as they neared port |