ORDEAL IN OPEN BOAT
(British Official Wireless.) (Received January. 19, 5.30 p.m.) RUGBY, January 18. After spending 11 days at sea in an open boat, 31 men from a torpedoed ship sighted land on the horizon about 60 miles away. Suddenly heavy weather blew up. Four times in four hours the small boat was overturned by the mountainous seas, and each time some of the exhausted men were lost when flung into the sea. When the weather calmed only nine had survived.. Two days later they were rescued by a R.A.F.. rescue plane. One of these was Petty Officer A. C. Manders, who has been awarded the British Empire Medal.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 97, 20 January 1944, Page 6
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110ORDEAL IN OPEN BOAT Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 97, 20 January 1944, Page 6
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