FLYING-BOAT DOWN AT SEA
(British Officiil Wireless.)
Gale Wind and Big Waves Threaten to Swamp Machine FISHERMEN RESCUE CREW
(Received 7, 12.45 p.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 6. The crew of a Royal Air Force fly-lng-boat which made a forced landing in the North Sea yesterday and drifted helplessly for some hours landed safely at Scarborough to-day. They had been rescued by a Dutch fishingbcat, and came ashore wearing clothes and wooden clogs borrowed from the Dutchmen. While they were taking part in exercises in the North Sea one of the two ergines of the flying-boat failed, and after the machine had limped along for some miles on the remaining engine the petrol pipe broke. Drifting on the edge of the Dogger Bank, with a gale wind and very heavy seas threatening to swamp the boat, the crew had to wait an hour and ahalf before a Dutch fishing-boat came to the rescue, and it was then nearly two hours before a rope could be got to them. The first tow-rope broke, but eventually the flying-boat got in tow and the fishing-boat headed for Scarborough. It was getting dark, and sea-water entered the flying-boat and put the wiroless out of action, so the officer in command decided to get his cnen to safety in the fishing-boat. They roped theinselves together and jumped into the sea to be hauled 30 yards through the wavea to the rescue ship.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 198, 7 September 1937, Page 7
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