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Show HEROIC COOLNESS IS SHOWN BY CREW OF DESTROYER Discipline Prevails During Collision; Sailors Bravely Brave-ly Face Death! NEW YORK, Nov. 15. Twenty-five American sailors who faced death In I battling- against flames and th sea j when the, United tttwtes destroyer Shaw waa wrecked In collision with i the big transport Aqultania off the! coaat of Ksft land. October , arrived here today on the Canadian Pacific liner Met Ma. They described how fourteen Yankee ore the Itttle warship went heroically to their deaths fight-ilia; fight-ilia; to save their ship. The Shaw was finally towed safely into Portsmouth, Kngiand, where she is being rebuilt. After the collision a number of the destroyer's crew were Imprisoned below be-low decks by Tames whirl, burst from two bis; oil tanks under the bridge. On man perished, the others were rescued, after they had saved the, vessel ves-sel by retting; a cable through a porthole port-hole to another American destroyer. This dragged the 8 haw through the sea at great speed until the 'waves dashed over the deck and extinguished j renrtv I 1lOUIrLITlC. ; Wh!le the destroyer was both burning burn-ing and sinking, her men stood at their stations and by their perfect discipline and heroic coolness made maneuvers which saved their vessel. Tha gnaw, with several ether de-a de-a troy era. was convoying the Aouitsnla. which was carrying 600 American troops. The destroyer's steering gear broke while she was dashing; ahead In a heavy sea In answer to a U-boat alarm. The transport crashed Into her and sliced her In two about thirty-five feet from the bow. 26 SAILORS INJURED. In accordance with orders from the admiralty, the Aqttltania kept on her course, for fear of submarine attack If she stopped to give aid. Two Pnlted Htaiea destroyers rushed to the help of the crippled vessel. The bulkheads of the Shaw's bow sectiott collapsed, a4 that aectlon sank after remaining on the surface for some time. It was on the main part of the destroyer that the men fought the fire. Lieutenant Commander Glasaford, driven from his bridge by the flames, coolly directed the operations, opera-tions, the survivors said. Twenty-six of the sailors were so badly Injured they were taken to the hospital at Portsmouth. J I ass ford also remained there in charge of the rebuilding. The aurTlvors who arrived here are en route to Ban Francisco to ship aboard another destroyer. |