MID-ATLANTIC RESCUE
SEAMEN IN LIFEBOAT (British Official Wireless.) (8.0. W.) RUGBY. AUg. 9. Messages from an auxiliary wireless transmitter in a lifeboat led to the rescue in mid-Atlantic of 43 merchant seamen who had been adrift for a week after their ship had been sunk. ! Warships escorting a convoy across .the Atlantic heard a call to a shore 'radio station, giving the aproximate •position, and a sloop and corvette [were detached to find the lifeboat.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20858, 10 August 1942, Page 4
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75MID-ATLANTIC RESCUE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20858, 10 August 1942, Page 4
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