N.Z. Helicopter Pilot Makes Rescue
LONDON, July 15. A Royal Navy helicopter piloted by a New Zealander, Lieutenant Rex Sherlock, rescued the pilot of a Vampire jet fighter which crashed off Wales today. The Vampire came down two miles and a half offshore near Porthcawl. The pilot, Flying Officer King, baled out and inflated his dinghy. In an air and sea search Lieutenant Sherlock sighted the dinghy. Flying Officer King, who had “been two hours in his dinghy, was hauled aboard the helicopter.
Lieutenant Sherlock, who comes from Dunedin, is serving in the Royal Navy.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27404, 17 July 1954, Page 7
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