{"id":569,"date":"2010-06-25T10:14:41","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T10:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/54.229.91.100\/libraryandarts\/library\/ehistory\/?p=569"},"modified":"2010-06-25T10:14:41","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T10:14:41","slug":"distress-call-brought-ten-ships-to-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/distress-call-brought-ten-ships-to-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"DISTRESS CALL BROUGHT TEN SHIPS TO SCENE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><font size=\"6\"><em><font size=\"3\">Leinster Leader 15<sup>th<\/sup> November 1913<\/font><\/em><\/font><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"TEXT-INDENT: 36pt\"><strong><em>In October 1913 the passenger liner the <span>Volturno, sailing from Rotterdam to Halifax and New York, caught fire in the mid-Atlantic. Her distress call brought ten ships to the scene; 523 people were rescued, but 131 perished.&nbsp;[note J. Durney]<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"TEXT-INDENT: 36pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"TEXT-INDENT: 36pt\">Among the passengers on board the liner <em>Carmania<\/em> on the recent memorable trip in which the vessel went to the assistance of the burning <em>Volturno<\/em> in mid-ocean was Mr Wm Clarke, C.P.S., Carbury, who was returning from spending holidays with his brother in the United States, and who witnessed from the deck of the Cunarder the dramatic scenes already fully described in the daily Press. Mr Clarke says he retired to his bunk at midnight when the first efforts to save the <em>Volturno&rsquo;s <\/em>passengers had failed, and not wishing to be an eyewitness to the destruction of the vessel and its human freight which was expected at any moment. At five the next morning he was surprised to see the <em>Volturno<\/em> still over water, and preparations being made for the rescue of the remaining passengers, which was soon after successfully carried out. The sight of the nine big liners surrounding the <em>Volturno<\/em> Mr Clarke describes as one of extreme grandeur.<\/div>\n<div style=\"TEXT-INDENT: 36pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div style=\"TEXT-INDENT: 36pt\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>The Leinster Leader of November 1913&nbsp;reports that in October 1913 the passenger liner the <span>Volturno, sailing from Rotterdam to Halifax and New York, caught fire in the mid-Atlantic. Our thanks to James Durney&#8230;<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"TEXT-INDENT: 36pt\"><strong><em><\/p>\n<div style=\"TEXT-INDENT: 36pt\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>The Leinster Leader of November 1913&nbsp;reports that in October 1913 the passenger liner the <span>Volturno, sailing from Rotterdam to Halifax and New York, caught fire in the mid-Atlantic. Our thanks to James Durney&#8230;<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<p><\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspaper-articles","category-uncategorised"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Kildare Local Studies","author_link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/author\/localstudies\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}