SALVAGE AWARD
GRANTED Tf) RESCUERS
United Press Association—By Electrii Telegraph—Copyright).
(Received this day at 11.35 a.m.) LONDON, April 29.
Seven officers and 188 men of H.M.S. Keith share £3OOO salvage award, and the owners of the Coiinthic receive £IO,OOO, arising out of the rescue by the towing ci the Argoshil! last October, after an Atlantc mile had destroyed her steering g r ar. The claimants contended th’t their services subjected them to serious risk from aircraft and submarine attack.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 April 1940, Page 5
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