DRIFTING SUBMARINE REACHES PORT WITHOUT ITS CAPTAIN
Recd. 8 p.m. Capetown, Dec. 2. Adrift for ten days off the African coast with a civilian crew aboard, the submarine Rover arrived in Mombassa without her captain and electrical engineer, who had set off on a raft to try to reach the coast 20 miles away. The raft was rigged with a curtain rod and two sheets as sails. The two men expected to reach Mombassa on Monday after three days on the raft. The submarine’s engineer, Mr. H. T. Carter, who took charge after Captain H. Jeffrey left, said: “We drifted 800 miles before we were rescued. The cause of the trouble was that the engines stopped because of water in the fuel. When this was cleaned there was no battery power left to operate the air bottler or pump the oil. Nobody worried, but the heat in the submarine was terrible.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, 3 December 1946, Page 5
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