76 DAYS IN OPEN BOAT
(Received February 3, 8.15 p.m.) NEW YORK. February 2,
Though he was too weak to give a coherent account, Mr. William Collon, an American seaman who was rescued after 76 days in an open lifeboat, said his ship was torpedoed off West Africa. The life; boat originally carried 20. of whom 15 died before the rescue. Four more died on board the ship which took Collon to Trinidad.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 111, 4 February 1943, Page 5
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7376 DAYS IN OPEN BOAT Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 111, 4 February 1943, Page 5
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