THE SYDNEY’S CAPTAIN.
Captain Glossop, commander of the victorious Sydney, was within 4ft of death during the fight with the Emdeu. He had taken his place on the bridge at dawn, according to accounts from eyewitnesses, and was still there when the shell that struck the Sydney killed an A.B. standing at Captain Glossop’s side, and broke the range-finder. Those who know the captain suspect that he did not turn a hair. He stayed where be was, controlling engines, rudder, gun crews, and [torpedo tubes, and the greatest testimony that could be paid to his nerves lies in the fact that, leu minutes after the Emden fired that first shell she was crippled and beaten. Captain Glossop is a well-groomed little man, ruddy of hair and countenance, with a brisk manner, and a philosophy described as “oldfashioned.” On his ship all is extreme tidiness, and the crew knows that in return for getting the best of everything it has to give the best possible work.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1344, 7 January 1915, Page 4
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165THE SYDNEY’S CAPTAIN. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1344, 7 January 1915, Page 4
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