GALLANT SEAMEN
MEN OF MERCHANT SERVICE PRAISED CALM DISCIPLINE IN TIME OF DANGER. TRIBUTE TO FISHERMEN. & LIFEBOAT CREWS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, January 11. The “Yorkshire Post” today pays editorial tribute to the heroism of the merchant seamen. "These men of the merchant fleet follow a tradition as courageous and enduring as that of the fighting services,” it says. “It is a tradition upon which we depend for our very lives in war time, and we know we shall never depend upon it in vain. It shines bravely in the calm discipline with which the crew of the Dunbar Castle on Tuesday ensured that their passengers reached safety before they gave thought to their own lives. It glowed in the surging response made by fishermen to the call for volunteers for the hazardous task of fighting magnetic mines. It reveals itself movingly in the rescue work carried out day by day by lifeboat men.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 January 1940, Page 5
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154GALLANT SEAMEN Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 January 1940, Page 5
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