EPIC OF SEA
SAILORS’ FUTILE HEROISM. (Rec. 10.35 p.m./ London, June 13. An epic of the Atlantic was enacted when the Anchor liner California was six hundred miles from England. A woman slipped overboard; two sailors jumped over to rescue her, but the vessel was going at such a speed that they were soon far astern, and before the boat could be launched they were all drowned.—A. and N.Z.
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Southland Times, Issue 20203, 14 June 1927, Page 7
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69EPIC OF SEA Southland Times, Issue 20203, 14 June 1927, Page 7
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