OCEAN TRAGEDY
EIGHT=WEEK VOYAGE IN OPEN BOAT TWO SURVIVORS REACH BAHAMAS. FIVE OTHER MEN PERISH. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) NASSAU, November 1-. Robert George Tapscott, Cardiff, aged 19, and Wilbert Roy Widdecombe, Neuport, aged 24, were flown to Nassau from Eleuthera, in the Bahamas. They are survivors of the Anglo Saxon, sunk by a raider 500 miles south-west of the Azores on August 21. They sailed 2500 miles in a 16-foot boat. They caught rainwater, but had no water for eight days and ate seaweed, one flying fish and one garfish in 55 days. A farmer at Eleuthera saw them crawling along the beach. Originally there were seven in the boat, but two who were wounded when the raider machine-gunned the boats died, two jumped overboard and one committed suicide.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 November 1940, Page 5
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