HEROIC BATTLE
FAILURE TO SAVE ’PLANE MONTREAL. Ifltli July. Tlip sinking at Port, Burwell (Ungavu, Labrador) of the ‘‘Chicago Tribune’s” ’plane Untin Bowler, which was making a llight from Chicago to Berlin. ended a. live-day battle to save the big twin-engined flying-boat. Every man in the little settlement of Port Burwell was employed to try to fend the ice floes oil' tin- ship, but with the wind velocity fid miles an hour, it was impossible to hold her. and carried between Hoes two miles off shore, she disappeared under (he ice and waves. It may he two months before the crew can return by steamer to Chicago.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 27 July 1929, Page 2
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