Daring Voyage in Open Boat
^ - 1 Received Thursday, 7 p.m. ! LONDON, August 3. Two brothers from Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Stanley and Colin Cox, have been reported 900 miles out from Halifax, Nova Scotia, in a 20ft. open boat which they are endeavouring to sail across the Atlantie to England. They left Yarmouth a few months ago and spent their demobilisation pay in establishing a boat-building business in Nova Scotia, and the boat they are now sailing was one of the lirst they built. They left Halifax on July 6 and were sighted by a Britisli sliip on Tuesday, i their 26th day at sea. Their only shelter is a dinghy lashed across the coekpit of their boat.
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 August 1949, Page 5
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