S.O.S. IN MID-ATLANTIC
MERCHANT SEAMEN RESCUED (Rec. 9.30 a.m.) Rugby, Aug. 10. A message from an auxiliary wireless transmitter in a lifeboat led to the rescue in mid-Atlantic of 43 merchant seamen who had been adrift a week after their ship was sunk. Warships escorting a convoy across the Atlantic heard a call to a shore radio station giving the approximate position and a sloop and corvette were detached to find the lifeboat. —8.0. W.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 10 August 1942, Page 5
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