THREE GALLANT SAILORS.
RESCUE 300 FEET IN AIR
LONDON, Dec. 15.
The gold Albert Medal has boon awarded °to Seaman Rath, and the ordinary Albert Medal to Seamen Knoulton and Abbott. A seaplane carrying out exercises emerged from a cloud at high speed, and struck the mast of a wireless station. The seaplane’s engine wedged into the latticed steel girders, the body of the aeroplane sticking out at night angles. The pilot was flung upon the plane unconscious, 300 feet above the ground. The three sailors climbed up inside the latticed girders. Rath crawled out on the plane and held the pilot, groaning and semi-delirious, until Knoulton and Abbot passed out a rope by which the pilot was lowered to the ground. The gallantry oFjthe seamen was accentuated by the fact that the mast, was badly damaged and the wind caused the mast and seaplane to sway, threatening to crash to the earth at every moment.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 December 1917, Page 3
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156THREE GALLANT SAILORS. Hokitika Guardian, 28 December 1917, Page 3
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