Show S SHIP BELLS BELL'S TINKLE TI TITI LE SAVED CAPTAIN TI GR NOW Commander of P Had Th Thrilling illing War Experience e- e TEW C-TEW w YORK YORI Oct 18 Stephen Stephen Gronow Ih th captain of ot the a I descendant of ot a 0 famous eton Breton mn of ot mariners had one one of ot the most I i thrilling experiences during the late subI sub- sub i I S marine warfare against the mercantile r.- r. marine In to the Atlantic which was full I i of of thrills l s for r four o years Ills 1 da de turo has n hot a appeared in p print and is known friends t only and ana to brother oth a few officers m of rs h his in to th the Intimate ti corn com pap pany pally Captain Gronow owes his life Ute to the tinkling of ot a small brass bell among some wreckage which caused him to be picked up after he had been drifting inan in inn an 1 unconscious n condition for or four hours In tn the icy waters of the English chan chan- I nel ael el This is the story On December 23 1917 the tile Cunard 1 freighter of ot WOO tons bound I I from tram New York to London with a cargo cargo i I of ten f foodstuffs m miles u off ff t and Lands Lands l lw munitions tEnd w End n Cornwall Cornwall was Il about b and and J I Ii i a for ohe heavy three eS sea days with lr had a been strong tossing northerly O galeSki gale le Ski Her decks had a been swe swept t fre r and aft 1 i by the seas s the lifeboats b and rafts a had fJ I been smashed and carried overboard in fragments the and and the tiller the upper part of the rudder had d be n. n br broken ken by the I pounding of or of th seas and the and the captain had been the crew ere for two tw days das rigging a II jury tiller in its place At At t 5 In the afternoon a 1 torpedo torpedo torpedo tor tor- struck the snip on the starboard side Ride under i the bridge and exploded with terrific force toree killing seventeen of the crew and forcing up the decks Including the bridge where the wooden stanchions were torn from their sockets A destroyer destroy destroy- er came up short shortly afterward and too took off oft the remainder of ot the crew forty forty- ort three men and the commander asked Captain Crones v to togo go with theta then as it was only a a. question of ot a R. short time when the shattered steamship would sink Th The Tha captain who stood on his damaged bridge declined to leave the ship and requested th destroyer to send out tugs because he thought there was a n. chance to to into shallow water Inter near Penzance forty Jort orty miles mUes awn away ALONE ON A SINKING SHIP The destroyer steamed away leaving learing the captain alone on the sinking ship and md soon afterward a a. tug and a a. drifter I arrived and Captain Gronow mado made the i lines Unes fast forward Just as ho he was completing com com- completing om- om his difficult task a 0 big sea lea poured I. I over the bow and dashed Captain Gronow on his back against the sharp point of oC ofa a n. which Is l used led ed for cutting mines adrift The blood commenced to flow from the open wound but in his ex excitement excitement excitement ex- ex he did not notice It It and the was towed toward the land getting getting get get- tin ting down deeper by the head every minute There wn was an angry sea pea running and the gale blew harder than ever from the northward Two hours later the bow was three feet under water and ana the engine en engine en- en gine room and boiler room were flooded and the thc sea poured into the cabins and the hold so that it became impossible to tow the longer It was pitch dark and the weather veather was as very cold when the tug and the drifter cast off oCt the lines from the Captain Gronow Gronow Gro Oro- now shouted to the skipper of or the tug I when she came Caine near enough to hear him through the megaphone that he would stA stand stACi Ci b by tiie e ship hip to It came at 8 80 sao SO 1 fi f i The captain was on on the bridge very ery weal weak as aa no Igo had lost a quantity or or of blood and was dazed from fatigue and exposure exposUre expos expos- ure As the sunk under his feet he grasped the canvas awnings with the he wooden stanchions on the tho bridge that had been cast loose b by the shock of ot the torpedo and remembered no more until he be recovered consciousness at midnight on Christmas eve in a II hospital in Pen Pen- zance SAVED BY A TINKLING BELL At 1230 a. a TO roo on December 24 the lookout man on a drifter making for Penzance Pen Pen- zance heard what he thought was wasa a small ships ship's bell tinkling every now and then as if It It was close by on the surface of ot the sea sen lie called the skipper skipper skip skip- per who stopped the small craft and they both listened and heard the bell I distinctly The dinghy dinghy- was lowered and two of ot the crew pulled In the direction of the sound Bound and found a quantity of ot wreckage amid which was a n. small brass bell lashed to a wooden frame that had been fixed over the wheelman's head bead on the bridge of ot the for him to strike the hours by the wheelhouse clock Uy lly the flie light of ot a II lantern the sailors in inthe inthe the d dinghy saw the e u unconscious conscious C s saC aC captain It half supported by et t th canvas awnings with his hair frozen and the blood congealed congealed congealed con con- on his face tace and neck As the waves knocked against the wooden stanchions the bell beil was shaken causing the tongue to strike against the side They rhey hauled Captain Captala Gronow into the boat and brought him to the drifter where ho hc was wrapped up in blankets and the craft made all aU speed to Pen- Pen zance He was unconscious for twenty twenty- four tour hours after his rescue I |