AN EXCITING RESCUE.
. THEEE OFPICEES LEAP OVEEBOABD., By Telegraph—Press '' ' . ,(Eec. December 7, 9.15 ;sm.) Sydney, December, 7; . An 'exciting incident is reported by. tho training -ship Port Jackson, which has just arrived from London. '. - • . While off the tho New South Wales coast a cadet fell overboard, but caught the-cross-jack sheet as ho fell. The first, second, and third officers attached lines to themselves and sprang after the lad. ■ All were dragged at the rato of seven knots an-hour for a considerable, time. Eventually- the vessel . luffed and the cadet and his rescuers were taken aboard greatly exhausted. , ■ ■■■'•■ . [A cross-jack.is a large square, sail bent and set to the lower yard on tho mizzen mast,, and the cross-jack sheet is the sheet which' works the sail.]
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 994, 8 December 1910, Page 5
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125AN EXCITING RESCUE. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 994, 8 December 1910, Page 5
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