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The salvor was forty minutes in the water, supporting the man. Cleverley jumped off top of the poop, a height of thirty feet to the surface of the water." "On the 29th August, 1884, off Beyrout, H.M.S. Alexandra was steaming at the rate of four knots an hour, when a man fell overboard. Lieut. the Hon.
Various - The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 28, April 1893
An Illustrated Monthly
Walter Cleverley, a passenger, promptly jumped overboard, swam to the man then fifty yards from the ship and assisted him to a life-buoy, which was previously thrown. The vessel was going thirteen knots an hour. Captain Hay, commanding the ship, states: 'The danger incurred was incalculable, as the sea thereabouts is infested with sharks.
Various - The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 28, April 1893
An Illustrated Monthly
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