GERMAN SEAPLANE WRECKED.
THE CREW PERISH
Received tbia day, 8.40 a.m. Amsterdam, Tuesday
A lifeboat at Schiermonnik Island answered distress signals and found a German waterplane stranded on n Bandbank. The crew of the lifeboat refused to promise they should not bo interned and the airmen decided to wait for a chance of rescue by torpedo boats, and clung for five hours in a rising storm to their machine. They were then again compelled to signal the lifeboat,.but she was too late to rescue them.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 746, 17 February 1915, Page 5
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85GERMAN SEAPLANE WRECKED. King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 746, 17 February 1915, Page 5
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