RESCUE IN ATLANTIC
AID OF FLYING BOATS SEA CAPTAIN’S STORY (EFc. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Sept. 23, 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 22. A graphic .story was told by Captain J. Schofield, the master of the Kensington Court, the crew of which, after the vessel had been torpedoed in the Atlantic toy a German submarine, were rescued by two flying boats of the Royal Air Force.
He said that the submarine, without warning, shelled the vessel which was bound for Birkenhead with Argentina wheat. He sighted the submarine and ordered fullsteam ahead and sent out an SOS call. “The submarine continued firing shells," he said. “Each came nearer and nearer until I decided I must save the crew. I ordered the boats to be lowered. Shells fell close on either side of the ship as we were abandoning her. “Half aa hour later we saw the planes. We did not dream that they would come down and we were astonished and delighted when we saw two alight. The crew were ferried two or three at a time to the flying boats in the latter's emergency rubber dinghies.’’
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20050, 23 September 1939, Page 6
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187RESCUE IN ATLANTIC Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20050, 23 September 1939, Page 6
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