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MADE BY AMERICAN SEAMAN GOODBYE WAVED TO CROWD LU LIFEBOAT. I ACTION OF CAPTAIN OATES RECALLED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, Noon.) LONDON, September 30. A member of the crew of the torpedoed American-owned vessel Pink Star swam up to the only lifeboat, saw it full and waved goodbye and swam away again. He was James Cassidy, of New Brunswick, and the story of his gallantry was related by the master of the ship, Captain Mackenzie, who landed yesterday, with 24 survivors, at a British port. “Cassidy’s act was the finest thing I have ever seen,” Captain Mackenzie said. ' “We did not see him again." The newspapers describe Cassidy as a gallant gentleman, his action recalling Captain Oates’s gesture during Scott’s last expedition to the Antarctic.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 October 1941, Page 6
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129HEROIC SACRIFICE Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 October 1941, Page 6
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