The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 08, 1941, Page PAGE TWO, Image 2
NEWBERRIAN ON ROBIN MOOR
TELLS OF SINKING BY SUB
Newberry, July 2H?Henry H. Blrod,
veteran seaman, whose niany thrilling
experiences Include a ship wreck In
the Baltic when bin whip bad Ith
bottom torn out when It ran onto u
rock and his ihohI recent, one which
he freely agrees la his moat unusual
experience, that of having his ship
uunk by u Merman Mubinarlne, arrived
In Newberry yesterday with his
nephew, Troy Klrod, who accompanied
htm on his last trip. The Itobln
Moor on which Mr. Klrod was chief
engineer and Troy, a wiper, wua aunk [
In the early morning hours of May 21
In the South Atlantic, en route to
Capetown, South Africa.
Mr. Klrod la visiting his slater, Mrs.
Alice Rinimer, and his brother, Wilton
Klrod, and Mrs. Klrod, Troy's parents,
here for severul days. Both
men, though considerably tanned
from exposure, are apparently none
the worst for their experience. !
Though very modest, they anawored
(juestlona freely ou their experience,1
the sinking of the Itobln Moor, 18,
days in lifeboats and their rescue by '
the ship, City of Wellington.
Mr. Klrod, in relating the story,
said that It was about 4 o'clock in
the morning when they huw lights of,
an approaching ship end after algnala '
were exchanged found that they were
talking to the captain of a submarine,!
who ordered them not to use their'
wireless and to stop the engines. I
Captain K. W. Myers sent the chief
officer, Melvin Mundy, in a small
boat to the submarine at the submarine
captain's command, "Send boat
to me." Chief Mundy pleaded with
the submarine officer to no avail, lie
kept repeating to Mr. Mundy, "You
have supplies for my country's enemy,
I must sink you." Me finally
agreed to extend the time for us to
leave the Itobln Moor from 20 to 30
minutes after it was pointed out that
In addition to the crew, there were
eight passengers, among whom waa
a little boy of two and a woman of
(JO.
Mr. Mundy suffered a broken anklo
when jammed between the lifeboat
arid the ship on bis return and "I was
sent to take the ship's paper". Mr.
Klrod stated. The submarine officer
was told when handed the papers,
"You will be sony.jf yjriCyarry out
your threat to sink olfr ship." "See
you In New York after the war." was
his reply.. All the time that we were
at the submarine they were busy taking
our pictures. We asked for
something to 11 x up Chief Mundy's
ankli s and were given some (Jerman
bandages. it wtlH (,H,k HU(1 1 couldnt
mXke out the make or markings of
tin* equipment on the submarine. "We
wore given 30 inluutea to leave the
ltobin Moor. Dob pi to his leg ^r>
Mundy h an luted me with the removal
of the crew and passengera. *1 was
the lant to leave the Bblp. The la?t
life boat had Just been loaded and
pulllod out when I realized that 1 was
the only one aboard, and although I
could have Hwlinined tho dlatanee 1
called and they came back for me. In
a few minutes the HUbmarlne began
shelling and 18 minutes later the
ltobin Moor was a floating ma?8 of
| Hinall plecea. Just as we loft the ship
It began pouring rain.
"Three of the four lifeboats carried
11 men. while the boat I was in had
12 passengers, including little ltobin
McOullough. Three of the passengers,
being women. Mrs. It. W. McCullough,
Mrs. II. M. Cohn. Mrs. H. G. Oemmell,
and their husban'cls. I bad planned to
take Troy In tho boat with me. but
the chief mate In another boat asked
that Troy be allowed to go with him
as he was one of tho best men he had.
All of tho boats stayed close to the
hpot where the Robin .Moor went
down for 24 hours In the hope that
the submarine had sent out the SOS
that they had promised and help
would come. After that wo drifted
and came together again on the
eighth day and separated again.
However, tow of the others kept a
little better contact with us.
"We really got hungry as we only
had hard tack, one can of German
bread, one can of Danish butter and
ten gallons of water, a three day's
supply. We asked for more water,
but the submarine officer replied that
they did not have any more tins. It
rained continually .but we were not
able to catch much additional water.
It rained often. Just enough to keep
us wet. The lifeboats only 20 feet
long and very narrow, there was very
little space. None of us could sleep
except little Robin, who bad a soft
bed on bis father's chest. He was
the only one who could stomach the
hard tack. Kvery one was so dumfounded
when they came on deck to
find that we were facing a submarine
that there was not time for anything
except to try to get Into the life preservers.
"On the morning of the thirteenth
day. but really I Just lost count of
what day It really was. we saw something
like a cloud In the distance that
proved to be the smoke from a steamer.
That was about nine in tho
morning and it was 12 before we were
picked up. Those were the most
tense hours of the entire time for we
were but a tiny speck and did not
know whether the ship would see us
0,0,0.7 Had it been at night we could
have sent up flares to attract attention.
which we <ti< 1 every night. I.ater
the ruptaln of the rescue ship The ( ity
of Wellington, said that he would
have probably thought we were a submarine
had he seen the llares, Anvwav
we kept hoping and finally when
they were near enough we held up
little Robin McCullough for them m
see that we were not enemies. They
soon picked us up and then began
I the search for the other boats. Wo
I circled for several hours a distance
!?f some I" miles and when we didn t
see any signs and as it was nearly
j night decided there was no hope of
finding them. The captain gave
orders for the ship to be righted and
set on its course. Just us the ship
righted itself for the course we saw
the other two life boats right in front
of us. We were overjoyed to pick
them up and really get started on our
way again. Although the City of
Wellington had Just enough food for
the crew of 100 they saw that we
were fed. They only had lOo eggs, a
little sausage, hut plenty ot bread and
butter and it was really good.
We had traveled some 500 miles
from the disaster of the Robin Moor
and there was 500 more before we
would have sighted land, but I believe
we would have eventually made
it. although there would probably have
been Home dead, but 1 believe 1 could
have made It.
While on the City of Wellington 1
went Into the captain's quarters to
listen to the reports on the small
radio he had and heard the report
that hope had ,beeu given up for our
rescue. When I told Troy this he re*
! plied "Well I hope they don't ?ell iny
car at home."
"Wo arrived In Capetown, South
Africa, June 16. Immediately after
Retting off ship the other officers and
1 were Interviewed by the press,
among the mon being, Robert St.
John, Associated Press correspondent,
who told us that the folks back home
hud been anxiously awaiting news of
us. We were Rlud to learn that our
other life boat had landed at Pernabuco,
thus accounting for the full
ship's complement of 46.
"We enjoyed our stay in Capetown
and often while tnere went to some
of the cafes on the ^edge of town
where we ate the moat delicious fried
chicken. Finally we got passage back
for the crew on various ships with
the exception of one of the men who
was stricken as we were ready to
leave with appendicitis. There are j
so many people awaiting passage to
the states and who are willing to pay
any price to get here that we found
It difficult to get epace of any kind '
on the ships.
Mr. Elrod plans to remain >*ith rel*
at Ives here several days, then visit
around Greenville and his sister in
North Carolina before again taking up
his place on the seas.
But as for Troy whose very first
trip It was when asked what his
plans were, just smiled and replied I
have not decided what my future
plans are.
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Lee Safe Is Found;
Money Is Missing
A 600 pouud safe stolen from the J.
K. Lee general store and filling etalion
at the fork of the Kastover high'
way undv IJ. 8. Highway No. 1 recently
was recovered after being lo|
rated In a thicket uear the Doby Mill
section.
The safe had been broken open and
the caeh contents, aggregating $51
had been taken. Husiness records,
personal war service records of Mr.
*<ee and also private papers In the
safe were all recovered, according
Sheriff J. H. McLeod.
The fact that a robbery of a slml
lar nature, In which a safe was carted
away in a truck, which ocpurrdtl
near Florence has led to a belief that
the two robberies were the work of
the same gang.
Dexter Boy kin Dead
Funeral services for Dexter A.
Boykln, 65, of the Hickory Hill section
of I.*ee county, died suddenly at
2:30 Tuesday afternoon of a heart attack,
were conducted Wednesday afternoou
at 5:30 o'clock at Bfcldtn
Methodist church. The services were
conducted by the llev. George Phlfer.
Surviving Mr. Roykln are his wife,
the former Miss Virile Hancock, and
the following children: Mrs. Ray
| Barnes, Miss Agnes Boykln, Jack and
Herbert lloykln. Also surviving are
his mother, Mrs. Dpck Amersou and
& number'of brothers and sisters?
llishopville Messenger,
.
Joseph Wilson Swan, an Englishman,
took out the first patent for
making artificial silk In 1883. In his
process, a pulp of wood and cotton
wus squirted through small holes.
Reports compiled by the Civil Aeronautics
Administration show that persons
participating in civilian aviation
have increased more than double over
previous years.
Heavy Storm Break
Extreme Heat Wave
Camden's lone heat Bpell, f^aturta
two weeks of near 100 degree teinjj
ature %nd Intense humidity ?,
checked Monday wheu a heav
thunderstorm swept over this
A noisy electrical disturbance ^
lug which several poles and tree,
were struck featured the wash d*y
downpour.
I^ast Friday night, between 7:a
and 0 o'clock the city was visited by
an electrloal storm that was one of
the noisiest and most destructive of
the season.
The home of Jud?e N. C. Arnett o?
Broad street was struck by Ijghtni^
and it was necessary to summon the
Are department to extinguish the
blaze which had started. *
The. home of Mrs. E. C. Stout it
2027 Broad street was also strut*
during the storm. The lightning fyj.1
lowed a phone wire into the dwelling!
blew out all of the electrical fuvul
jumped to a nearby garage and bleu!
up a section of cement flooring and I
then vented its fury on a wooden!
beam at the side of the garage. There!
was no fire to follow this discharge. I
notice of shareholders
meeting
To the shareholders of Chancetield
Plantation, Camden, S. t\:
Notice is hereby given of a meeting
of the shareholders of Chancetleld
Plantation. Camden, S. (V, that a
meeting of tin- shareholders of said
. _ uur puruliun will bit held in the law
offices of Henry Savage. Jr., Ks<i.; in
Camden, S on the 8th day of
September at lb A. M . for the purpose
of considering resolutions for
the dissolution of stud corporation and
the .surrender of its corporate chart
IT.
WALTON FKKCrsOX. T.nl.
President.
Camden. S. ('.. August S, 1911.
"final discharge
Notice is hereby given that tine
month from this date, on September
V 1941. we will make to the Probate
Court of Kershaw County our final
return as Administrator of the estate
of W. It. Clyburn. deceased, and on
the same date we will apply to the
said Court for a html discharge as
said Administrators.
LK WIS L. CLYHl'RN.
\\\ It. CLYHCRN. JR.
Ad ministrators.
Camden. S. C . August 8. 1941.
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