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STORY OF THE RESCUE
On July 5th Captain Olympia, of the Corregidor told the story of the saving of the crew of the Egremont Castle as follows:
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1 spoke to Captain F. J. Caun, of the Eyremont Castle, and he said that the light Black Rock was not burning The night of the disaster there had been A very heavy rain, Captain Cann "tok me, so heavy that he could not see his hand held at arm's length froip his body: As the Corregidor is a light tender, I investigated the case, the weather being good, and found that the light which is of the automatic flashing type, bad gone out of commission. I looked up the re cords and found that the light had last been inspected and overhauled on April 24th. 1928, and that there had bren neetylene enough to last until September at least. The failure of the light to work was due to the pilot light's being out of conmission.
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I returned to my boat and stood by until Sunday afternoon (July 26th). During the whole week from Monday. when I went to the distressed vessel, u to Thursday, the weather was excellent. On Thursday afternoon the weather was a bit bad and I was forced to pull away from the Egremont Costle,
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The crew remained aboard until Friday night, when the weather became so bad that I though: the ship would be pounded to pieces on the reef. The Cap- tain of the stranded vessel called to me through a megaphone asked me to come alongside and take the crew off. I tried to de as he asked but was unable, so I sent a launch and was lucky to get the crew aft without accident. Capt. Cann refused to abandon ship and stayed aboard, until early Saturday morning when the weather became so bad that I asked him to come aboard the Corregidor. "I then sent the launch to get him and he was brought to the Corregidur Assoon 18 he came without mishap.
board he lay down, almost prostrated with grief at having to desert his sessel. He has been a muster for 20 years, and this was his first accident:
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Before we pulled away for Munila, Captain Cann insisted on going abcard his ship once more to see if there was any chanes of saving her. But he saw the folly of remaining on the vessel and returned to the Corregidor. steamed away, the Captain of the doomed Vessel almost had to be held on the ship, he wanted so much to stay and see the Pfate of bis vessel. When we left, whe was still hanging on the reef het we knew that she would go down any minute."
LIGHT THAT FAILED
When asked further as to the cause of the light on Black Rock going out, the Bureau of Commerce and Industry, said (un- that the light is under clasỰ watched). In the lighthouse registry book here is a statement under this variety as follows:
o Keeper Vest lights of this class are automatic acetylene burning. Tubba- hata light is of this variety, acetylene burning, Bashing every ten seconds, Lights of this class cannot be relied upon, May become extinguished or apparatus may get out of order and some time may elapse before they can be reached to re- pair or relight."..
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