TO SAVE CONVOYS.
' GALLANT CASTAWAYS. LONDON, Dec. 15. A lifeboat, full of survivors from a torpedoed ship, some of them injured, had bet'n tossing in the Atlantic for seven days and nights when they sighted in the gathering dusk a convoy passing three miles away. Yet they refrained from using their (lares, which are visible at night lor many miles, because they did not want to betray the position of the convoy to any lurking submarines. Very cautiously they signalled with 'a pocket flash-lamp, blit there was no acknowledgment. The convoy passed on, leaving the shipwrecked men with the conviction that they had sacrificed perhaps their only hope of rescue in order to save the convoy. But their signal had boon seen. An hour and a-balf later a British warship loomed out. of the darkness and rescued everv man.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 62, Issue 87, 23 January 1942, Page 3
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