Show f J Yi IA I- I 1 0 A if i l ST VE DOOMED 1 u v Y t i AO tC t P r tf K if 1 4 Thrilling Rescues at Sea in Midwinter i I Gales Give Gallant a 3 Skippers Chance 3 k a t to Uphold Ancient Tradition That Captain Shall al' al p Until Until Stand By 1 All Aboard His His r Y Craft Ai e Al'-e e Saved S SS r u S S l l v r r y r w wh h k J I t M A eA e e'S S 'S S a The Americas America's lifeboat No 1 was lowered into the sea and maneuvered as close as permissible to the Florida under the guidance of Chief Officer Manning A line was thrown to the disabled craft by which her crew one by one were taken off the foundering vessel t True to the tradition of the sea Captain n Favaloro l of the Florida J was the last A 17 s f to leave lea his ship 0 t 4 Nj Lr l i 4 n w l f J S 6 i yr 5 5 5 5 r Actual photograph of a w scene on the fated itt just before she sank with the loss of lives Ji William Carey r went down with his ship in accordance with g old age maritime practice C C. Willi William Duncan By m The lifeboat was teas again maneuvered successfully and a line placed aboard and we tec thus succeeded in getting the entire crew off oD and into our boat The captain Giuseppe Favaloro was teas the last to leave leare his ship and informed our duel officer Harry Manning that there was teas none left behind and no pets on board THESE two short sentences forming form form- IN ing a part of at a detailed report of at the he most recent thrilling rescue at sea Captain Cap Cap- taro tain George Fried master of at the United States lIner America paid tribute to a a. fellow officer an Italian and in a seamans seaman's sea sea- mans man's terse way ay told the world orld that another another an- an other brave bra man had lived true to the ancient tradition ot of the the sea captain shall be the last to leave Favaloro's Fa ship the Italian freighter Florida was listing badly to starboard and her decks were being swept with mountainous seas when the America commanded by the gallant Fried hero heroo o at the Roosevelt's rescue oX of the hove into view I HI had my crew in ready for forthe the boat from the America said the Italian skipper in speaking of the events that transpired later It was a grEat maneuver on the part of the America as I could do nothing to help I had no rockets and could make no great light for them to see In approaching he came abeam to windward and put a lifeboat in the sea manned by volunteers and able abe seamen In a few minutes their boat came cameto to to the of my ship just In time It came up maneuvering with great S skill and threw a a. line to us We started getting off I counted my men one by one and was finally assured all were on board the lifeboat Next to the last man was the chief engineer Then I threw myself into the sea bringing with me papers and giving my last Jast good good-by to the FlorIda Flor- Flor Ida whIch was sinking rapidly So another thrilling tale or of the sea passes into history with the names of Captain Fried captain Favaloro Harry Manning the gallant commander of the lifeboat cre crew and others written indelibly on the minds or of the thousands who do donot donot not soon forget the feats performed by bythe the sons of the mIghty Atlantic The voice of sea tradition often orten commands commands com com- mands more than The captaIn shall be the last to leave It reverberates out of the mist or of the ages and across 1 t 4 d J r Jit if t ts J the seas of time timeto to decree decree You shan shall go godown godown down wIth your ship On a bleak November day of last year the name ot of Willlam William Carey was added to t the long lIst of masters who ha have ve up upheld up- up held the best traditions or of the sea sea- seaby by sinking with their ships Hell no You jump were his last terse words uttered to the second steward of the doomed Alfred Duncan who had suggested that the captain leap firstI firstI first I jumped and that was the last Jast I saw of him said the steward There is something tragic something dramatic in the sinking of any cap cap- tain Some go down because they realize with no help near at hand that escape from death is Impossible others because it is a a. spectacular and honorable death and others because they are overwhelmed with the disaster and take the easiest way out Captain Carey undoubtedly belongs to the tho mentioned last class The disaster costing more than lives many of them women and children is recent enough for the public to recall the paramount paramount para para- mount f facts how she ran into rough weather on a a. Sunday and sank the following fol- fol lowing Monday afternoon how the skipper skipper skip skip- per delayed his SOS until 10 o'clock Monday Monday Mon Mon- day morning almost a fun full day after the Ship was forced to lay to Just why the skipper delayed will never b be known One theory advanced advanced ad- ad is that he believed the water could be pumped out sufficiently for the ship to proceed under her oWn own power another that hIs prIde as a competent captain made him hesitate to call for assistance from others another that he was just an emergency As the master of the sinking vessel stood oa 01 the boat neck and watched the lifeboats slowly pull away he undoubtedly had visions of a court ot of inquiry with himself hImsel in the s 5 chair squirming and twisting at the tl ot of a ruthless ruthless ruth ruth- less cross examiner He perhaps thought of glaring headlines saying Carey to Blame for Death of Children of clicking click cUck- Ing cameras of sleepless nights Life LUe for him would woul be lingering death ot of mental mental men men- tal torture and disgrace Death by drowning drownIng drown drown- Ing would be quick and honorable accor according ac- ac cor cording ln to the thc ancient traditions of the sea So Captain Carey chose the easiest way and drown drowned d. d And the next day there came thIs news dispatch out of London under the heading heading head head- ing Mourned Hero as Captain Carey m master ter of the steamship and Noel N el 1 j Left to right Captain George Fried of the America Captain Cap Cap- taro tain Giuseppe Favaloro or of orthe the Florida and Chief Officer Harry Manning of the America America Amer- Amer ica who commanded the lifeboat lifeboat life life- boat which took off the Flori FIorI Flor- Flor I idas ida's crew radio operator werd coupled today in British thought as e of the finest traditions of the sea The fact that both stayed by the sinking yes yes- too late to save themselves was generally haIled with as much satisfaction satisfaction tion as the melancholy cIrcumstances of their deaths would permit And so passed Captain Carey who in his native land was Mourned as a Hero THE ancIent Vikings who roamed the theseas l seas hundreds of years ago started this tradition of the sea The terror of of their name is to be seen in the prayer From the fury of the Norsemen good goodLord goodLord Lord deliver us They were essentially masculine and knew not the meaning of fear Their burIal customs Frank C. C Bowen tells us were ere the direct result of the inability in- in ability of to grasp the possibility pos pos- ot of the souls of the dead beIng separated from their bodies So the dead chieftain ws was left with his ship and his arms to sail saU across to Valhalla when the time came for what Norseman could Imagine Valhalla to be anywhere but beyond beyond be- be yond the sea thA M way of his endeavors A VIking warrior wounded to death would often be put still alIve into his ship with the bodIes of his followers around aroundhim aroundhim him and the whole set fire to drift like Uke a a. torch before the wind says Mr Bowen In The Sea Its HIstory and Romance They were a people who had a sense of the pIcturesque and impressive and at the same time a a. lust and conte for death Those ancient VikIngs had a contempt for death and for a leader to die at sea was especially picturesque and honorable Hence down through the centuries has come the thc custom and It wm will endure for centuries in the future unmindful of the many changes in oth other r customs that passing passing pass pass- ing years will wU bring about Far surpassing the in the mag mag- 3 I i. i Until the fatal voyage of the Titanic y he enjoyed all the pleasures that life can offer an active ambitious successful x captain of industry He was a notable 1 figure in the yachting and racing world was a patron of polo and had a box at atthe the opera An interviewer sent to vIsit him seven years later found he had voluntarily is drawn himself himsel into almost complete Ser se- se r elusIon He was a tragic figure whom W i care and premature age had marked for their own ThiS has been the fate of many a survivor stirS stir sur- e r Y who has been handed the blame justly or unjustly for a sea disaster When some great catastrophe occurs out there thereon on the ocean the public looks around for some one to condemn If the com commander ander i survives he becomes the object of all the thet t criticism he receives the of the Rs' Rs investigators the tears of the women anda and a the curses of the men It If the cap captain tam dies any other prominent official will do That is one reason why many a captain t goes down with his ship He prefers a the quiet of the ocean depths to the turmoil of a c courtroom He pre prefers ers being 4 a dead hero to a living goat 5 S Even the skipper of the Lusitania torpedoed in time of war found to his sorrow that he could not escape at least some censure He captain William T. T At rF Y I x i d r p 4 t i k LJ s t c cA ce A e S t One of the outstanding rescues of the the sea foundering Denmark's passengers and crew being rescued by the Missouri Rescues of this sort happen frequently an and the captains of the unfortunate vessels feel free freeto to abandon their ships after the entire personnel has been taken off of disaster were the of the tho Titanic and Lusitania A total of 1517 persons went to the tho bottom with the fated ill Titanic which struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage from England to New York April 14 1912 captain Smith died but the managing director of the White Star Line lived Let Letus Letus us see what happened to fo this man Bruce Ismay who was among those saved when the liner sank l' l J n Turner was first notified of an approachIng approach approach- Ing torpedo by Second Officer Hefford He ran to the tho starboard side of the shiP and saw clearly the wake of a torpedo There was a slight shock followed a few seconds later by another report The second torpedo struck squarely over the boilers Ca Captain tain Turner tried to turn the Lusitania toward the shore to beach her but her engines were crippled and such a course was impossible The ship went down under the skipper who was it strong swimmer and managed to stay afloat for four hours when he was picked up The fact that Captain Turner swam for his life was in itself Usel proof ho thought he was right and preferred to live livo to face any criticism that mIght be hurled at him stories of skippers skippers' marvelous escapes es- es FEW V capes from the sea surpass the narrative narra- narra Uve tive told by Captain of the Republic Republic Re- Re public which sank after arrer a collision with the steamship Florida It was about 8 o'clock on sunday night when the Republic was sinking and only Second Officer Williams and I were on the bridge at the time he said There was a rumbling and a crackling at the after end of the boat The stern WM was settling rapidly and the sea was pretty bad There was a slight tremor Well I 1 said what do you think lOt of it Williams I dont don't think it will be a a long race for Sor the shore he said Lets sprint r for r it When you are arc ready let her go go As we ran forward the stern was wM sinking rapidly and the incline was sod steep that when we got to the fore rI rig rigging ging we started to slip back and could could hardly keep on deck The last I 1 saw saw f Williams he had crossed the port r rail and was hanging over the side I 1 to the rigging and went up as high as th the masthead lights a distance of fe feet T Then the water caught up to me spreading spread ing out my greatcoat and making it sort of life I floated It was wa very dark and the water was a r a seething mass all about me I was caught In the whirlpool and churned around d until I came to the surface I 1 tried pull off my coat but There was considerable deb debris is ab about J me and I managed to catch hold ot of some broken spars Then I 1 caught a hatch covering I 1 pulled myself out PI the hatch and lay lav on it t spread eaglet spread 2 fashion In this way I floated around foie fo some time The searchlights were all over the water but it seemed to i ml they would never find me The light were on the two revenue cutters cutters' a a. a the tug Scully Then out of the dar darness dare ness came a boat and I 1 was haule haul aboard I 1 was weak and finished 1 TALE of the tradition or of the those se No would be complete without an opine i f from some competent officer now novi abo aboa a modern liner which has withstood gal gale icebergs torpedoes and collisions many years Billy LInn popular and g tal executive is just such a man andl f ship the Leviathan with its r i wartime and peacetime record Is Jw juts such a steamship She is flagship of tb United States Lines Line's fleet of b steamships which includes the Ame 1 lt among its number Billy Linn has been riding the se sefor for thirty years and knows as much abo l sea life and sea tradition as any mad ma afloat I t tI I believe the majority of masters m-It m have down with their vessels hat ha gone t t. t done so because of being with the magnitude of the dis disaster ter abo a g l them he says say No one is more sent tive to his responsibilities than a t class ship captain He live unto hIr birj self His hope is that hi rule and conduct be above rep When W en d aster overtakes him and his gt down he naturally is bowed down wJ Wi Z grief and whether remorse or not tie be to blame and in the dark ho hour r de t go along with the he ve vessel el h he lov loves s. s i means nothing then lie He wants peace a af sleep hell he'll get them at the bottom of rt t ocean Those who have been to sea know k h sacredly are guarded many handed down from generation to ge gene 1 tion That or of the captain being th J to abandon the ship or gOing down w wit S Sit it is one of them It has endured and will endure ages COP by 1111 |