SKIPPER PATRIARCH

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 156, 27 March 1919, Page 9

SKIPPER PATRIARCH

9 _• A HUN RAIDER'S ACCOUNT. Captain John B. -Rugg, master of. the barque Dee, captured mid sunk by (he German - mider Wolf, in April, ISI7, iecentl.y returned to his home al. ]''ore>t Gate, London, from u German prison camp. Tn his report published in Berlin, Captain Nerger, commander, of the' Wolf, says: "One admirable prisoner was Cap-tain-John B. Rugs, skipper of 1 the soiling ship Dee. Tim loss of his ship struck deep into his heart. Deeply bowed, he stood at: bur vail as the Deo sank. He had taken off his hat as if. lie stood ■it the grave of n relative, and wept. We did not disturb him. Wγ. could only too well understand his grief. "He lived on a patriarchal' feeling with the crew, mostly blacks from Mauritius. They came, to him with all their troubles, ■ great, and'small. For himself, he never asked anything, but only for his crew. "As ho watched his vessel beginning Vr dentil strusslp, lie feemed wnnsoion's that one tear after another ■ yolKl from his eyes. He hncl failed his ship for many years, flnd could hnrdly contain himself. Soon the Deo' took a plunge and sank." Captain Riisg has been at sea for 50 yoor«. SJ if tlipin us r> enriner, .and the Dee is the only ship he .has lost