GERMAN SAILORS
ADRIFT IN A LIFEBOAT ILL, COLD AND HUNGRY t United Press Assn.—Elen. Tel. Copyright LONDON, Nov. 3 A lifeboat containing three German sailors, helpless, ill, cold and hungry, drifted into the Firth of Forth, says the Daily Mail. They had attempted to escape in the darkness from a Scottish island port where the crew of their ship had been detained. The men had only the quantitv of stores normally stowed in a lifeboat. They had tried for several days to cross the North Sea, in spite of storms and currents, but gave up and were carried by the current to Scotland, after six days of freedom. They were handed over to the military authorities and interned. The wreckage of two lifeboats, with the name Hamburg painted over the name Poseidon, has been washed up on the west coast of Iceland, says a message from Reykjavik.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20953, 4 November 1939, Page 7
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