Cheers for rescuers. A British 'plane diving over one of the lifeboats from the freighter Fanad Head, which was sunk by a U-boat. The flyers sighted the boats and signalled by Morse to a destroyer, which picked up the full crew after they had been adrift for 12 hours.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 December 1939, Page 8
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49Cheers for rescuers. A British 'plane diving over one of the lifeboats from the freighter Fanad Head, which was sunk by a U-boat. The flyers sighted the boats and signalled by Morse to a destroyer, which picked up the full crew after they had been adrift for 12 hours. Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 December 1939, Page 8
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