New-York tribune., 1921-01-20
Liners Stokers
Mutiny, ire on
Ships Officers
Black Gang of New Rochelle
Overpowered and Put to
Work Under Armed Guard
When They Rebel at Sea
Storm and Ice Delay Trip
Master-at-Arms Killed When
Wave Hits Him; 2 Alleged
Thieves in Grew Arrested

The steamship New Rochelle, of the
Baltic Line, came into port yesterday,
sixteen days out of Havre. sheatheo
and bearded with ice, her ratings torn
away by the heavy seas, her forwa rd
ports smashed, with only a makeshift
wireless outfit and with q tale of
mutlny in the stokehole in the midst
OF the arduous voyage.
Before the vessel approached her
moorlngs at Pier 3. Army Base, Brook
lyn, she was met by the police boat in
response to wireless call and re-
ileved of two seamen who are alleged
to have stolen hams and bacon from
the ships stores and peddled them
ashore while the New Rochelle was
tied up at Danzig.
Although officers of the shin ad-
mitted that members of the 1black
gang" had mutinied at the height of
the gale, they made no charges against
any other member of the crew, and only
the two alleged thieves were taken
ashore to be locked up.
Mutineers Fire at Officers
The ship was being battered by
mountainous seas and was making
heavy weather of it owing to the
masses of ice that gathered forward.
they said, when some of the fireroom
squad refused to turn out when their
watch was called. The safety of all on
board depended upon the vessels
maintaining its headway, and officers
entered the mems quarters to force
them to their tasks.
The mutineers had provided them
selves with revolvers and ammunition
while the ship lay at Havre, however,
and opened fire at the first display of
force by their superiors. Dents and
inrged holes in the steel walls of the
ship show where their bullets went
The officers retired temporarily, but
force and took the mutineers by sur
prise. They were overpowered and dis
armed and set to work with slice bars
and shovels, while an armed guard was
maintained in the fire room,
When the New Rochelle was five
days out from this port the life was
battered out Of her master-at arms
Joseph Robinson, who served with dis
tinctlon in the Expeditionary Forces
he was caught by wave, which swept
the saloon deck, and flung against the
rail.
Unconscious Form Rescued
Another wave was breaking across
the deck and surging toward his sense
less DOdy When AXel Johnson, boat
swain, darted to the rail, snatched up
Robinson and carried him to safety.
The next moment green water was
foaming three feet deep across the deck
where the rescue had been made.
Robinson died from his injuries half
an hour later and was buried at sea-
Arthur Mccarthy, chief steward, was
another hero among the members of
the crew. The day following binson's
death, Polish woman, a steerage pas
senger, with her -year-old child in
her arms, strayed too far out on the
forward deck. Mccarthy, in an attempt
to reach the woman, was swept the
length of the deck by large wave.
The same wave was about to sweep the
mother and her child overboard wnen
Mccarthy reached them and pulled
them to safety
The day before the wireless aerial
of the New Rochelle was swept away
Captain S. s. McM-rray of the New Ro-
chelle received an S 0 S call from
some Norwegian steamer the name Of
which he did not catch, which report
ed that her captain had been injured
by high waves.
The wireless said that his legs and