WOMAN’S COOLNESS
INCIDENT ON SINKING SHIP. (United Press Association—By ElectricTelegraph .—Copyrigb *•.) LONDON, June 9, “A cup of tea first,” was the cool demand of a woman on a sinking iship, when called by the stewards to put on her lifebelt. WTien the steamer Lochram struck a reef in the Tnner Hebrides in the small hours of Saturday morning, and began settling down with nine feet of water in the hold, a steward rushed to call the only woman passenger, Airs Al’Oall, of Tobermory (Argyllshire, Scotland). Instead of hastening to the. lifeboat-, however, she sat up in her bunk and calmly demanded a cup of tea. Eventually her husband persuaded her to go on deck, where she hugged her handbag and wailed until the Lochrani slipped off t’’o reef and was beached permitting the rescue of the passengers. Her husband was hurrying to the bedside of his dying mother, in response to a wireless call, but arrived 20 minutes too late-
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 June 1932, Page 2
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