Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 204, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1918 — A Seven-Time Winner. [ARTICLE]

A Seven-Time Winner.

The unique record of having been torpedoed seven times is held by William Jessop, a seafarer of Hull, England, who is seventy-two years of age. He is still on the active list. “Young men,” he said, “have sometimes refused to sail with me, as they think I shall be unlucky.” Jessop is the oldest member of the Ships’ Cook and Stewards’ union in Hull, and generally sails as a cook or steward. During the first year of the war he waa torpedoed three times, and the lastffour ships on which he sailed were all lost. His courage, however, remains undiminished. “I will sign on to go anywhere,” he declared. *