The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-12-26
COAST GUARD NOT
ON JOB THIS TINE.
Crow of The Wrecked Tug Explorer
Rescued by Residents of Mays Heao
and Not by U. S. Guards

The q. S. Coast Guard crew at Nags
Head, Station No. ia, didn't seem TO
be on the job with usual Coast Guard
efficiency on Dec. u when the tugpoaI
Explorer went ashore there. This news,
nauer has received several letters crit
icisine the Coast Guard for their tar
diness on the occasion in question. The
newspaper accounts at the time gave
the Coast Guard full credit for res
cuins the crew of the tug.
Keeper. S. D. Gard and crew of Kill
Devil Hill Station No. 173. just below
Nags Head sighted the tug IN dlstress
about 12:15 p. N. OF Dec IL. Nass
Head Station did not sight the tug un-
til after p. III. and got Doat anu
crew under way about D p. m. In mean
time the crew of the stranded tug hao
come ashore in one of their own boats
The weather was dull and murky and
the small boat was unobseryed by the
lCoast Guard. How the rescue OF the
| imperiled men was effected by natlVes
! of Nags Head Independent of the Coast
Guard is told in the following communl
cation to this newspaper
/ - ,Sags Head, N rC.i Deee.nber is. 1918
Editor THE INDEPENDENT = -
am writing this to inform You Of the the disas tiss,
sosst tss Ehi5e Dece%bFf nnBf"f tR IN Is ocean
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xsrs not the ssrne stsfSa tfF the
tne Eadsns 5ns Fhsy
sH ssr sheGid have guarding the coast ~ Ab4 fn
asr f'"sh sas n Six 'hs feet In the
cold and fns eakms 50 mueh 5hsy
aud started for shore.
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the boat t TerF sge high tre% Snq him I fo heP
% @ ope to MsFe Of the Brsksr ss
ns hs spaa down was the fshsh one A.
e. Tass f Head heeR eB4s nR ss ts %afS and
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ashore hS"d IN tie 'ss sa shf
got the beach M Just bad a1 tf gotten TO to xhe
f. bGtO% ba Could ID not no Stand n It
KoSsr tsn Hi sfo 4ns ts Hs5t HsR
sassS rassed & Hs a S' shore 5"s Wrappe bR
Eaasey Ess sS boys cTed @ HIM to Bsasss
m p tsn S elStsb pm 5@ on in h'P bed FaHs p
a5mh rao. any The Others the dressed in in
S drank ao of the aR' things fn Witch
brought from the Explorer
Coast ' Guards dscoyered it and ea9s it,otq to N
thing but heseves They said they n onnd Samed dG t
% TO aesuue Sona and had come to look for them.
The captain Of the EzP0Tsrd srd caps csntn >heTf SeT
| was going to rescue them from the water!
HraGG rair capts G He said II see that's all You ha
et SGT with YOU The Coast Buard saht"n feN fe
aae them to take the sick out of bed 5 and fa ea
they could not force them SO then & they hem Ota
niG6t Next morning Dec. j., ahcut ;s,O
al r16ck the same Coast Guards Went 10 feasie
lie at John T. Wse home They fs found 4pav tne Ment
Il J Jam r. Wses home The of the ot, E5pD ,
Dec th they needed sleep p.. and f6sn FS5 aoa out ea
and got the captain up to the etftr sta%h Wch an1 Wo
he help t.ieni 1i are in The Virginian- Pilot IN
- an awful bad mistake when 1T stated Lns'
It. oast Guards rescued the crew from parf danseR Roc
lio Nate Robert Haley Chas. k1mbal' fTj1 fLeu niois
er johnny Wallole and John Eagles, Neoioieo''
' (Scned)