SEAMEN'S ORDEAL
ROWED 400 MILES IN THE ATLANTIC Twenty seamen, including three Irishmen, who had rowed 400 miles in the Atlantic l'or nine days,, were landed on the Irish coast the other day. They were survivors of the 9000ton tanker Atholl Laird, bound light for Cuba, which was torpedoed. The survivors had been picked up eight miles off the coast by another vessel. Apart from occasional use of sail in their 20ft lifeboat they had covered the entire distance by the use of oars. Their only food had been biscuits, corn beef, condensed mil'k and raiu water. A report states . that the second ship's lifeboat, containing the remaining 22 members of the crew, liad been picked up by British warships 200 miles from the coast.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 248, 11 December 1940, Page 2
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125SEAMEN'S ORDEAL Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 248, 11 December 1940, Page 2
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