Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-12-16

up rather than to allow ours. with
hundreds OF neutral passengers, TO
perish.
Captain HadGocE was not slow to
grasp the situation. AS soon as We
were well within sight OF the dis
tressed dreadnought heard his voice
ring out from the bridge:
Sailors, man the boats z,
There followed a sight which
shall never forget. Every man In the
olympic's crew at once pressed to the
boatdeck. They were followed by
every steward. 1t was not a question
OF who should be ordered to set to
sea on the heavy waves; it was a
question OF who should be allowed to
risk his life for King Georges sailors.
I'VE at first tried to lower our star
board boats, but the sea was running
too heavily on this side. So Capt.
Haddock moved the Olympic to a par
allel position two ship lengths away
from the sinking Audaeious and our
fourteen port boats were lowered.
Laying as we did, we broke the
wind which rushed against the map-of'
war by forming a hollow square, open
at both ends, and were able to get a
more quiet sea for the frail lifeboats.
Just as the first of our own boats
reached the water we saw a similar
though smaller craft push off from
the Audacious. 1t carried five men,
but 1t was too fragile to live in such
a sea. 1t was overturned lore 1t
had proceeded fifty yards. 20 e.>..-=s.
I'VE held our breaths and watched.
We saw four heads bobbing in the
water like as many corks. on an
anglers line. With superb strength
these men managed to climb upon the
keel of their boat, which had turned
completely over. The petty officer
who was in command OF the small
boat did not reappear He was the
only one OF the Audacious crew who
was lost" p ~ r. $780, -
Beames paused moment for
breath an dthen. turning to his com.
panion, said with a smile, "You tell 1t
for a while. Hugh" .-,. 4
by / o'clock" Griffiths went on,
"all but two hundred of the Audacious'
crew had been taken OF in our boats.
Two hundred were brought to the
Olympic, and more than 500 others
were taken to the Liverpool and two
other cruisers and destroyers which
came rapidly up These ships, them
selves being stripped for action, car
ried no lifeboats at all The Oiympic's
is boats rescued the entire Audacious'
crew.
.The sailors on the dreadnoHght
displayed the most superb discipline.
They; were calmly lined upon their
quarterback when we came up. There
was not even restless movement.
The officers walked calmly back and
forth with their hands folded behind
them. The seamen seemed to be on
dress parade ~ fs's d
$50 low was the stern Of the Auda.
cious In the water that the crew
laaped one by one from the rail into
the lifeboats. The lifeboats would
move astern and as the sea would
lift them lightly on the peak of o
giant swell, the jackies from the Au-
dacipus would leap into them as
though they were jumping to net"
Then. as was told by the Interna-
tional News Service yesterday. Grit,
fiths and Beamek reefted how an at
tempt had been made to carry cable
from the dreadnought to the Olympic.
The destroyer Fury assisted in this
work. The heavy sea made the strain
too great and the cable snapped
s'Then followed q most superb bit
OF seamanship." said Gfiffiths. See.
ing that q cable could not be carried
that distance, Capt. Haddock risked
a bold stroke. Handling his e00-foot
ship as though she had been O. child's
toy, he turned her about and ran d.
Iectly alongside the dreadnought's
stem.
I'VE came so close to her ii seemed