MAROONED MARINERS
PERILOUS PLIGHT REPORTED. (Received. 10.15 a.m.) LQNDON, February 21. Four Free State aeroplanes have arrived at the disused British aerodrome ot Oranmore preparatory to participating in a search for the missing crew of the Swansea trawler Cardigan Castle, who are believed to be elinging to an uninhabited island fringing the Galway coast. The machines are equipped with medicines and restoratives which will be dropped to the seamen by means of parachutes. Meanwhile sea craft are scouring the neighbourhood. The participant* report that owiv - to fog and heavy | seas they arc unable to land at the I island from which signals are suppoaI ed to have come.—Reuter. •
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Northern Advocate, 22 February 1926, Page 5
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