THE TORPEDOED Y.M.C.A. SHIP
Y MR. AND MRS. H. N. HOLMES ['' ■ SAVED.
i Mr. H. Hart, of Wellington, has re- ;■ ceivod word from the London agents of i Dimond and Hart informing linn that '■ Mr. H. N. Holmes [formerly secretary I of tho Y.M.C.A. in Wellington) and his '. \ ivile hail/ arrived in London, safe and ; sound after having been, torpedoed on the i-. American Y.SI.C.A. ship Oronsa in the ! Atlantic. ' lieeording tht incident the London j ''Daily Graphic" , of May 1 says:— I The fifty-seven Y.M..C.A. workers who ; were..on hoard tho Pacific Steam Navigai ition Company's linor Oronsa when ohe I was sunk by torpedo are now 'in Loni don, and, nont! the worse for tlioir ex- \- -puriences, are viewing, the sights of the 1 iiiotropolis. Jlr. Arthur ]5. Hungerj: ford, chief of the Publicity Depart- ! anent of the -Y.M.C.A. in the United '•■ State?, who is in charge of the party, ;' humorously suggested in tho coiirde of ! an interview yesterday that asi there were j thiileen preachers in the party the '■.. ■"hoodoo" was on the ship from the start. i lie explained that the boat was tor- \ perioed at "three minutes past one on Sun- [ day morning, the boilers blew up three : jninutes later, and within twelve minutes ! of.the torpedoing the boat went down. \ "The lifeboats/' he added, "were all i launched without a single accident. There ' vera altogether about 2"iO on board, in- ;■■ eluding about 100 pnssengers. We were i in the boats only al»ut thirty minutes, i and had about -five hours' trip on a dei. etroyer before wo were landed.at . ! AVliun we got in we lined up oh the de- ;: elroyer and saiig 'The Star Spangled i Bannci - ,' 'God Save the King, , and 'On- • ward, Christian Soldiers.' We noticed | : an elderly military mail standing on the }' Jiier, and when the torpedo-boat was I Berthed he came on board, lined us up t an military fashion, and congratulated I us on our escape, and told us how glnd [Vine was we had coino over to help. It i tiltimalely 'transpired. Hint it was Visi' count French." t. Captain Holt Hobson, master of the ; Oronsa, stated that the ship sank in ten I minutes, and broke in two immediately ; after abandonment. There was no panic. I' All behaved with tho utmost coolness, f especially fiva ladies, all nurses. Boat !■ drill OE the voyage and fine weather ftt f the time of the disaster, ho said, oxi plained the fact that so many of the I passengers and crew were saved. It is i ri relieved that only /mo life was lost, the ! "victim being a junior engineer named 1 Stono,. belonging to Salford, who was \ killed by the explosion.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 228, 14 June 1918, Page 6
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