This picture from the decks of His Majesty’s ship Southampton, records the rescue of 291 refugees from the Spanish port of Gijon who had put to sea in the trawler Mary Tero just before the armies of insurgent General Franco swept into the last Loyalist port in northern Spain. The trawler, with her load of human freight, was adrift MO miles off Gape do Penas, her engines stalled, sheds stretched for sails, and bare of food when the Southampton stcamed alongside. Joyously the refugees climbed aboard the British battleship to safety.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20387, 30 December 1937, Page 10
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91This picture from the decks of His Majesty’s ship Southampton, records the rescue of 291 refugees from the Spanish port of Gijon who had put to sea in the trawler Mary Tero just before the armies of insurgent General Franco swept into the last Loyalist port in northern Spain. The trawler, with her load of human freight, was adrift MO miles off Gape do Penas, her engines stalled, sheds stretched for sails, and bare of food when the Southampton stcamed alongside. Joyously the refugees climbed aboard the British battleship to safety. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20387, 30 December 1937, Page 10
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