FLORIDA-REPUBLIC COLLISION.
FURTHER DETAILS. CAPTAIN SEALBY’S BRAVERY. United Press Association. Copyrighi NEW YORK, Jan. 26* By a pre-arrangement, blue lights were burned and pistols fired from the Republic just before she foundered, in order to prevent the tug boat Gresham being drawn into the vortex. Thereupon the hawser was severed, and the Gresham’s lifeboats were lowmod. Captain Senlby, immediately alter the eollison, reassured the passengers, remarking that he did not think the Republic would sink. “She is settlingdown to a certain point, and will stay there,” lie said. AH heartily cheered the captain, 'and acted on his kindly advice. They, returned to the staterooms. and put on. warm clothes. The Florida’s officers suppressed an. incipient' panic among the emigrants. - WTion the Republic was sinking, after sending away the whole : of the crew in the lifeboats, Captain Sealby, declining to. leave, climbed .the lorcma«t iand reached the masthead light as she foundered in,3B fathoms; while the second. officer, 3Jr Williams, jumped from the rail to the sea. [Captain Inman Sealby, commander oftbc Republic, is well known m New Zealand,, having been to the Dominion, oh several occasions. Ho was for a considerable time in command of the s.s. Corinthic.]
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2411, 28 January 1909, Page 5
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198FLORIDA-REPUBLIC COLLISION. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2411, 28 January 1909, Page 5
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