SAVED BY PETROL TINS.
HOW THE CREW OF THE HERMES KEPT AFLOAT. The astonishingly large percentage of the officers and crew re-cued from the cruiser Hermes after the ship was torpedoed in the Dover Straits appears to have been due to a most ingenious idea thought of by someone wbo evidently retained all his presence of .mind in face of dea H '. A siipplv of the life-savins; pneumatic collars ordeivd by the Admiralty had been cxp.ctad. but the Hrrmes had to put to >oa bofoiv these wcr? receive<l. When the vessel was torpedoed several mile* "if thor . no assistance was at hand. She was settling down, and a great disaster threatened. wJien someone thought of Ix4ml tins, of which 4(10 wen; on board. The order was promptly given to empty the tins and screw down the stoppers, and on thso tins scores of men who must otherwise bave been drowned kept afloat until h< lp arrived.
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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 6, 22 January 1915, Page 3 (Supplement)
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156SAVED BY PETROL TINS. Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 6, 22 January 1915, Page 3 (Supplement)
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