• There has been terrific weather in the Atlantic. The
gales are said to have- been the worst for forty years ; the loss of shipping and • life has been great and the suffering prolonged. But seldom has the brotherhood of the sea been made more glorious than by the attempts to save life, some of them successful and some not. The most wonderful performance was that of the Captain and crew of the United States vessel ' President Roose- velt ' in saving men from the British vessel Antinoe.' When the ' President Roosevelt ' reached the Antino6 ' in response to messages of distress the Antinoe,' at the mercy of tremendous seas, was already in danger of foundering. Had not the ' President Roosevelt ' kept on her weather and spread a film of oil upon the sea she would no doubt have sunk much sooner than she did. To keep a large vessel just clear on the weather side of a water-logged vessel is a dangerous feat and needs all the resources of seamanship. For more than eighty hours Captain Fried was continually on the bridge.
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