ACHILLES TO RESCUE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22966, 18 February 1938, Page 9

ACHILLES TO RESCUE

AIKMEN PICKED DP FORCED DESCENT ON SEA WOMAN'S PART IN SEARCH SYDXEY. Feb. 17 After making a forced descent on the ocean 35 miles east of Gabo during naval exercises last night, an amphibian aeroplane from the cruiser Sydney was tossed for two hours by the waves before the members of the crew were picked up by the cruiser Achilles, of the New Zealand Squadron. A message, dropped from an aeroplane at Eden, was picked up by Miss Margaret Logan. Rowing in a leaking dinghy, she took the message to the pilot of a seaplane -which was moored in the harbour. The pilot immediately left to make a search. The naval exercises were suspended and 10 warships, together with several aeroplanes, joined in the search. With searchlights playing across the water, the Achilles found the seaplane at 8 p.m. The members of the crew were not harmed, and the men and the machine were taken on board the Sydney. On the return journey from the seaplane Miss Logan's dinghy was filled with water, and, bailing and rowing alternately, she reached the shore just before the boat was swamped.