HOOD SURVIVOR
ARRIVAL AT HIS HOME IN DERBY IN WATER FOR THREE HOURS. BEFORE BEING RESCUED. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) i Received This Day, 11.5 a.m.) LONDON. Juno 4. Ordinary Signalman Briggs, aged 18. one of the Hood's survivors, has reached his home in Derby. He said that ho and his companions wore in the water for three hours before they were rescued and taken to Iceland, where they were sent to hospital for two days. "I got off very lightly, with only a few bruises and scratches,” the seaman said. “We swallowed a lot of seawater and had to undergo artificial respiration."
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 June 1941, Page 6
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103HOOD SURVIVOR Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 June 1941, Page 6
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