EIGHT DAYS IN BOAT
SURVIVORS FROM THE CITY OF BENARES PARTY OF 46 RESCUED. INCLUDING SIX CHILDREN. (British Official Wireless.; (Received This Day, 1.15 p.m.) RUGBY, September 26. Forty-six more survivors from the City of Benares, the child evacuee ship, torpedoed in the Atlantic on Tuesday of last week, were landed at a .British 'port tonight. They spent eight days in a lifeboat before they were sighted and picked up. Six more children are among those saved, leaving the number of child victims of the torpedoing at 79. The survivors paid a tribute to the heroism 'of the children during the anxious days of exposure at sea. A 8.8. C. broadcast states that the boat was found on Wednesday by an aircraft piloted by an Australian, who directed a warship to the spot, which was 600 miles from land. The warship took the survivors on board.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 September 1940, Page 6
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