ORDEAL IN BOAT
SURVIVORS OF SUNKEN TANKER 3000 MILES !N TEN DAYS. BOAT CAPSIZED IN A STORM. (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright.) (Rec. 10.45 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 11. Nine seamen whose tanker was sunk by a Japanese raider six days out from an Australian port reached Madagascar recently in an open life' boat. They rowed and drifted 3000 miles in 30 days. Ten other members of the tanker’s crew died during the voyage. Some of the men were wounded by shell splinters. All suffered severely from short rations, exhausting work at the oars, and sharp changes of temperature. At one stage of the voyage a storm capsized the boat, but the men clung to the seats and righted it.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 64, Issue 1, 12 October 1943, Page 3
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