AIRMEN'S ADVENTURES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17145, 26 April 1919, Page 2 (Supplement)

AIRMEN'S ADVENTURES.

ADRIFT IN A STORMY SEA. RESCUE AFTER THREE DAYS. The story of a pilot and observer who spent three" days and nights in a stormy sea before being rescned, has just come to light. Lieutenants Jacquot and Nixon, in their 6caplance, were engaged on patrol work, hunting for submarines, near tho Scillies, when their machine dropped into j the waves. They managed to cling to tha. aptfurned floats of the submerged plane, and held on through the night. On the second day, ft steamer was sighted, but, thinking that their frantio signals proceeded from a U-boat, the captain ; quickly took his vessel on* of sight. On the'third day, the men attracted the attention of a passing cruiser, which approached cautiously in a zig-zag course, with her guns trained on the supposed submarine. But, when the real identity of the airmen was- discovered, oil was | poured on the turbulent sea, and a difficult rescue effected. . . During their three days' immersion the officers' only rations were a few biscuits, raisins, and malted milk tablets. Another story concerns a seaplane pilot and observer who finding &emeehea unable to return before darkr-esa, descended on the rooks surrounding Eddystone; Lighthouse, Tho machine was wrecked, and the observer was never seen again. The pilot, however, guided by the great beams, managed to get to the Kghthouse. There is. still serving at a Channel port an observer whose seaplane, while flying at a height of 1500 ft, near the same hghtr house, turned turtle, hurling him into the sea, where he was picked up by a minelayer. __________