FIVE SAVED BY SHIRT
1 BOY S ADVENTURE Eleven year old Malcolm Woolnough returned to his home in Brereton Avenue, Cleethorpes after 24 hours of adventure in which he: Climbed the mast of a sinking vessel to tie his shirt there as distress signal; Saved his uncle from drowning by holding him up by the hair; Spent a night in a real fort. Malcolm was out sailing off the mouth of the Humber in the 35ft. sloop Janiss with his uncle, Mr Ronald Watts, aged 22, another man, and two boys, when wreckage holed the sloop, which began to sink. There was room in the Janiss’s small boat for only four, so Mr Watts swam behind until he became exhausted, when Malcolm held him by the hair until soldiers from Haile Sand Fort, who had seen the shirt signal, rescued the five of them.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 37, 14 October 1946, Page 8
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144FIVE SAVED BY SHIRT Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 37, 14 October 1946, Page 8
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