Left Their Posts
FIREMEN OF VESTRIS REPLACED BY OFFICERS ] (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 10 a.m. NEW YORK, Friday. Giving evidence at the Vestris inquiry, Chief Engineer John Adams said the ship’s firemen left their posts at 10.30 on the morning on which the Vestris sank, the officers being compelled to replace them for the remaining half-hour, before further work became impossible. In the meantime, before Attorney Tuttle’s inquiry, an affidavit by an English first-class passenger, Mr. E. M. Walcott, was read stating that intense excitement and fear prevailed among the passengers for over two hours before the S.O.S. was sent. Passengers appeared on the decks with lifebelts, while the stewards assured them that there was no danger. Mr. Walcott also declared that the captain’s voice was “so hoarse that I could not understand what he was saying, and on the last order it broke altogether.” Mr. Walcott corroborated the testimony of other witnesses that the captain went down, still wearing his heavy overcoat, but without a lifebelt.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 520, 24 November 1928, Page 9
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169Left Their Posts Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 520, 24 November 1928, Page 9
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