Up against it in Nigeria . NO. 6 BOAT DIVING FROM THE DAVITS.(By courtesy of the Daily Mirror.). NO. 1 BOAT IN TROUBLE.(By courtesy of the Daily Mirror.) THE FALABA 171 mander shouted something which I did not catch,through a megaphone, while second and thirdmurderers, as they say in Macbeth, waggled agun at us with unpleasant significance. It was at this point that I was able to helpBathgate and one or two others with the tapesof their cork jackets. Then the first catastrophe took place. No. 6boat (on the port side) nose-dived as it were fromthe heavens into the water, and the three occupants
Up against it in Nigeria . NO. 6 BOAT DIVING FROM THE DAVITS.(By courtesy of the Daily Mirror.). NO. 1 BOAT IN TROUBLE.(By courtesy of the Daily Mirror.) THE FALABA 171 mander shouted something which I did not catch,through a megaphone, while second and thirdmurderers, as they say in Macbeth, waggled agun at us with unpleasant significance. It was at this point that I was able to helpBathgate and one or two others with the tapesof their cork jackets. Then the first catastrophe took place. No. 6boat (on the port side) nose-dived as it were fromthe heavens into the water, and the three occupants,according to their own evidence, went throughthe bottom !1 This was the harbinger of a seriesof untoward launching incidents such as Ishall never forget. Something next attracted myattention on the starboard side, and I arrived intime to see No. 1 boat lying keel upwards in thewater. Somebody had apparently let go one ofthe falls with a run, and most of the occupantsmust, I think, have been knocked insensible ordrowned straightway. One wretch was clingingto a rope, and screaming : u Rescue
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