NOSE DIVE AND SOMERSAULT.
S.O.S. SIGNALS SENT OUT. WARSHIPS RUSH TO RESCUE. i •" —~ (Received This Day, 1.55 p.m.) LONDON, January 1. “The Daily Mail’’ communicated by telephone with Colonel Hen Bey, Commandant of the Alexandria City Police, who said he had received a full account from an officer of the destroyer Brilliant, which picked up Captain Wilson. The air liner developed engine trouble nearing Alexandria. The wireless operator sent out several S.O.S. messages and received the reply “Help coming.” Suddenly the liner nose-dived into the sea and then completely somersaulted. Captain Wilson, who was thrown clear, struck out for a buoy. It was only his shouting and whistling which attracted the attention of the Brilliant. Captain Wilson told the rescuers: “I was about done.” He was almost unconscious when taken aboard the destroyer. H.M.S. Beagle was first to go in response to the S.O.S. and must have passed over the wreck before the arrival of the Brilliant and within easy distance of Captain Wilson, but it saw nothing. Colonel Hen added that one of the engines, part of a wing and bits of the fuselage are already ashore. Salvage has been suspended until daybreak.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 68, 2 January 1936, Page 5
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194NOSE DIVE AND SOMERSAULT. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 68, 2 January 1936, Page 5
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