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JANUARY PAGE 4 South East Shoal Lightship ee / N di ee N / \ I \ \ | \ ) \ } Ni SK 7 ee Soi ~ ~ Hanna's Maneuver course had carried her to the south- ward of the CLARION. Captain Ander- son put his wheel hard-a-port and came to windward and ran in to get a closer look. Making out men aboard the CLARION he ran to leeward to get room, starboarded and, coming round, passed under her stern, just brush- ing her, so that five of the six men jumped and landed on the HANNA's deck. The sixth man, benumbed with cold and advanced in years was un- able to make the leap in the precar- ious footing on the ice covered decks, and as the HANNA passed on, threw up his hands in dispair. Capt. Anderson resolved to make one more effort and, realizing that time was short, drove his ship in the short- est possible circle and again came under the CLARION's stern passing within a foot and rescued the man. After leaving the CLARION, Capt. Anderson, having learned of the get- ting away of the boat with twelve men, ran in towards the lightship to learn if they might have reached there. The crew of the lightship had seen nothing of them, so the HANNA was put upon her course. To the sailor, who can understand what this really means, it is unnec- essary to add anything. To take a big ship, with a displacement of nearly 13,000 tons, greater than that of many ocean liners, and with the low power of the slow moving bulk freighter, and maneuvering her in a howling gale and boiling sea to close with a drifting and burning hulk, and with such nicety of touch and calm judgement, taking the risk of collision and fire, marks the absolutely finished workman. The steamer JOSIAH C. MUNRO, bound and loaded, was about three miles to the westward of the light- ship when the flames first broke out through the CLARION's deck. Captain Sayre, upon sighting the fire, im- mediately put about and headed for her. The CLARION was at this time drifting over the shoal to the north up- of the lightship, the latter were dense vapor that over the water. crew of the but the lights of not visible in the was hanging low It appears that the lightship sighted the fire nearly the same time as Captain Sayre and commenced to blow alarm