“Men tell yet,” a 8.8. C. broadcaster related recently, “how in the last war a British cruiser was making for port after the Battle of Jutland, badly holed and in danger of foundering. A picket boat from the nearest shipyard with a dozen engineers went out to meet her: Aboard the cruiser the foreman of the gang found about 200 of the crew striving to stem the gaping rents in the ship’s side. Water was pouring in. ‘Get those men to' hell out of here,’ the foreman said. The naval officers gasped. But they obeyed. And in a few hours that handful of engineers made the ship sufficiently seaworthy to bring her to port. It was simply that they knew the job. That still goes. These men and their successors today know their job. They art getting on with it.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 February 1943, Page 4
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