STEAMER ESKDENE
CREW SPENDS 14 HOURS IN EOAT. By Telegraph-—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.50 p.m.) LONDON, December 4. The Eskdene crew rowed for 14 hours in an open boat. The boatswain was torpedoed five times in the last war. The captain returned to the charthouse after the explosion. The lights had failed and he struck matches to ascertain the position, which he wirelessed with an S.O.S. The Eskdene was ordered back to Murmansk on the outbreak of war. She carried timber.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 December 1939, Page 6
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83STEAMER ESKDENE Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 December 1939, Page 6
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