ORDEAL IN OPEN BOAT
LONDON, October 11. Nine seamen whose tanker was sunk ■by a Japanese raider when six days out from an Australian port reached Madagascar recently in an open lifeboat. They had rowed and drifted 3000 miles in 30 days. Ten other members of the tanker’s crew died during the voyage. Some of the men had been wounded by shell splinters. All suffered severely from short rations, the exhausting work at the oars, and the sharp changes of temperature. At one stage of the voyage a storm capsized the boat, but, the men clung to the seats aud righted it.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 15, 13 October 1943, Page 5
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102ORDEAL IN OPEN BOAT Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 15, 13 October 1943, Page 5
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