LONE ATLANTIC CROSSING
FEAT IN EIGHT TON - YACHT HOLDER. OF VICTORIAN CROSS (BriUsti official Wireless. 1 RUGBY, Oct. 31. Captain Rees arrived at Nassau in thi3 Bahamas to-day after sailing alone in his eight-ten yacht from Falmouth via the Azores. The voyage from the Azores took 64 days. Captain Rees won the Victoria Cross during the war by attacking single-handed ten enemy planes, bringing down two and continuing the fight, although .severely wounded, until the other eight had scattered.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 2 November 1933, Page 5
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