“YANKEE” CLIPPER’S END

Grey River Argus, 25 February 1943, Page 2

“YANKEE” CLIPPER’S END

AFTER 240 ATLANTIC CROSSINGS THE LISBON CRASH LONDON, Feb. 23. It is now known that at least twenty-three passeng’ers and members of the crew were killed in the crash at Lisbon of the Clipper flyingboat. from the United States, with forty persons aboard, of whom twen-tv;-seven were passengers. (Rec. 10.0) NEW YORK. Feb. 23. The Pan-American Airways Coy has announced that it was the Yankee Clipper which crashed in Lisbon. This clipper is the one that inaugurated the trans-Atlantic service in May, 1939. The Yankee Clipper had crossed the Atlantic Ocean 240 times. Captain Sullivan, who had piloted the clipper on 112 .trans-Atlantic flights and on 55 trans-Pacific flights, is among those who are believed to have been killed.