SOLDIER'S BRAVERY.
BURNING SHIP SAVED. (British Official Wireless.) Received April 27, 12.30 p.m. RUGBY, April 2G. How a voung soldier risked his life in order to save a burning ammunition ship is told with the award of the 0.8. E. to Private Storey. In January the Royal Crown, carrying ammunition, was attacked by n. Nazi aeroplane and set on fire by a bomb, while another bomb hit the vessel and, failing to explode, remained on board. The ship was beached and the crew escaped. ■ Two efforts were then made to get a party on board to extinguish the fire, but both 1 ailed. Storey volunteered and made a third attempt. He climbed up the side of the ship by two ladders which had been lashed together. After he had climbed 35 feet the ladder broke and he saved himself bv clutching the block ol the davit falls. , o On reaching the deck Storey at once dashed through the fire to the magazine, which might have been reached by the fire at any moment, and iound a rope ladder. Again braving the flames, he lowered this over the side, enabling the remainder of the party to get on board.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 126, 27 April 1940, Page 9
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198SOLDIER'S BRAVERY. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 126, 27 April 1940, Page 9
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