ORDEAL ON RAFT

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 42, 19 February 1942, Page 8

ORDEAL ON RAFT

MEN OF H.M.S. DUNEDIN

PURSUED BY SHARKS

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.)

(Rec. 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 18,

To be pursued by sharks and to -see their comrades go mad was part of the ordeal of survivors of H.M.S. Dunedin, which' was sunk by a U-boat in the Atlantic in December.

Arthur Quin, of Edinburgh, said: "During four days on a Carley float with 19 others, I saw one man from another raft go mad and jump overboard. Sharks took him. Three badly wounded men from our group died. Some of my shipmates went mad and drank salt water. We tried to keep the two floats together, but the current separated them. We never saw the other float again. Four men left our raft, saying: 'We will push it to a station." None of them returned.

"We ran out of water, but later another raft gave us a small quantity. I. had only a few drops of water, and what rainwater we could catch in our mouths and our cupped hands in four days. Only nine survived out of the 20 on our float. An American ship picked up seven floats with 72 men on them, five- of whom died the same night."