Historic Ships in Baltimore issued the following announcement on Aug. 18.
For your #FridayReading, learn about the heroic efforts by the Chicamacomico Coast Guard Station in 1918 to save sailors from a torpedoed British tanker.
"Up to that time, no Coast Guardsman had been trained to rescue survivors from burning water, so Midgett improvised. His men wrapped cloth around their faces and one surfman used an oar to strike water ahead of the boat to open the curtain of fire."
http://coastguard.dodlive.mil/2018/08/tlbl-mirlo-rescue/
Original source can be found here.
Source: Historic Ships in Baltimore
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