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he is shot ! ' I picked him up and saw that his head 

 was battered to pieces. I dropped him, rushed down 

 the forecastle, and saw the boatswain lying on the floor, 

 with his head battered in. 



" Another shot came and hit us, I didn't know where. 

 All hands were shouting out they were shot. I jumped 

 on the bridge to blow the whistle, but that and the 

 steampipe were knocked away. I tried to alter the 

 wheel, but the wheel-gear was smashed. I then found 

 we were sinking. I went to the boat, cut the grips, 

 plugged her up, and put the painter on the winch to 

 heave her aft, but found some of the winch smashed. 

 Then something hit me on the back. I saw the Gull 

 launch her boat. I dragged the skipper forward and 

 got the third hand up on deck and went for the chief. 

 He was unconscious. By this time the G^lls boat came 

 alongside and we put in the skipper and bosun, and got 

 in ourselves how, I don't know. 



" When the boy came to me and said, * Where is my 

 father ? ' that was a pill I could not swallow. For the 

 life of me I could not tell the boy what had happened to 

 his father. 



" The searchlights made everything like day. The 

 fireman, while he was in the engine-room, saw the war- 

 ship that was firing on us saw her through the hole 

 they made in the ship's side. They made a target of 

 us. They meant doing for us. They needed no lights 

 to see what we were. The searchlights told them plain 

 enough." 



The Mission surgeon, Dr. Anklesaria, who was on 

 board the Joseph and Sarah Miles, said that the damaged 

 trawlers were naturally on the look out for their own 



