RESCUED FROM RAFT
BID TO REACH ENGLAND EFFORT TO SEE FIANCEE PARIS, April 29. A former member of the Canadian Air Force, William L. Devane, was rescued off Brest unconscious on a raft made of three lifebelts and a ladder on which he had been drifting in the English Channel without food or water for three days. , , , Devane told the police that he had lowered himself from his ship, the Benjamin H. Hill, soon after she sailed from Le Havre on Saturday. He was trying to reach his fiancee in England, but mistook an island off the French coast for England. He lost his clothes and 18 months savings.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22318, 1 May 1947, Page 5
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