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LIFEBOAT THAT HAS SAVED 187 MEN since outbreak of war. HELP' GIVEN TO DAMAGED TRAWLER. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.35 a.m.) RUGBY, January 12. An East Coast lifeboat, which in full view of hundreds of people on the cliffs brought safely to port the crew of thirty of an Italian steamer which struck a mine, has now saved 187 men since the war began. The lifeboat men were standing by the sinking Italian ship when a trawler about a mile away was attacked by bombs and machine-gun fire from a German plane. The lifeboat took the slightly damaged trawler in tow until it was able to proceed on its way unaided, and then returned to her station with the Italian survivors.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 January 1940, Page 5
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125FINE RECORD Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 January 1940, Page 5
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