Lieutenant Brown and eight men of the _Seneca_ were saved, Machinist Boyce and ten Coast Guardsmen were lost, besides five belonging to the _Wellington's_ crew. But for the heavy gale and rough sea that developed, Brown and his volunteers would probably have won out and saved ship and cargo. They upheld to the fullest the high traditions of the Navy and Coast Guard. Another example of readiness to assume responsibility and act as the necessities of the occasion require, is that of Captain William J. Wheeler (U. S. Coast Guard), commanding the _Seneca_, which rescued the survivors from the British patrol sloop, _Cowslip_. After dark on April 2, 1918, the danger zone escort from Gibraltar, including the _Cowslip_, joined the convoy which the _Seneca_ had escorted from England. A loud explosion was heard and the _Cowslip_ displayed distress signals. The _Seneca_ immediately headed for her, although the sloop flashed the signal, "Stay away! Submarine in sight, port quarter." Circling the _Cowslip_ in search of the submarine, the _Seneca_ and the destroyer _Dale_, which had also come up, began to search for the enemy. The established doctrine then was that, when a vessel was torpedoed, other vessels in the vicinity should not risk their own destruction by endeavoring to go to her relief and that rescue of survivors should be considered as a secondary duty. But American officers could not witness a disabled and sinking ship without making every effort to save her people. Three times the _Seneca_ approached, stopping to lower her own boats and take off survivors from the British sloop. One enlisted man and all the wardroom officers of the _Cowslip_, except the officer-of-the-deck, had been killed by the explosion. The _Seneca_ rescued all the survivors, including the commanding officer, another commissioned officer, and 79 enlisted men. For this courageous and meritorious act, Captain Wheeler was commended by Admiral Niblack, Admiral Sims, and the British admiral commanding at Gibraltar. [Illustration: LOST WITH EVERY MAN ON BOARD The Coast Guard Cutter Tampa was lost on the night of September 26, 1918, sunk, probably by a submarine, before any of her companions in the convoy could see what had happened. Inset: Captain Charles Satterlee, commanding the Tampa.] [Illustration: THEY SAVED SURVIVORS OF TORPEDOED VESSELS At the risk of their own destruction, the crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Seneca repeatedly rescued survivors of torpedoed vessels, although it was an established rule that when a vessel was torpedoed other vessels in the vicinity should not go to her aid because of the almost certain destruction which would await the rescuers. Inset: Captain William J. Wheeler, commanding the Seneca.]