Shut Themselves in Engine Room Only Safe Place When the naval tanker War Bahadur, 11,680 tons, was battling against a 100-miles-an-hour Atlantic hurricane, the crew of 33 waited in the engine-room, expecting that their ship would sink at any moment, states the "Daily Telegraph and Morning Post.
The War Bahadur, to whose rescue the British destroyer Wolverine was sent, reached Plymouth on Jan. 18.
Capt. D. A. Rees, of Llyncelyn, Aberayron, master of the ship, said that the War Bahadur wallowed helplessly for 24 hours, 100 miles from the nearest steamship route. Her bridge, lifeboats and wireless-room were washed away.
We shut ourselves in the engine-room because it was the only place of safety, Capt. Rees said. You could not stand on deck and every other place of shelter had been wrecked. It was just like being in a submarine.
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