160 MILES AT SEA
FULLY CLOTHED SWIMMER. (Received 2 p.m.) . BOSTON (Mass.), August 11. In one of the weirdest mysteries of the Atlantic a man without a lifebelt, and fully clothed, was found swimming 160 miles out at sea today by a fishing trawler. The swimmer fought attempts-at rescue: -Because of his unintelligible rantings it was impossible to 16am how the man got so far out to sea. The trawler’s master wirelessed the coastguard, which dispatched an amphibian ’plane and brought, the. man to hospital here. *'
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Northern Advocate, 13 August 1935, Page 5
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