SAILOR’S LIFE SAVED
OPERATION PERFORMED IN OPEN BOAT. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 27. An operation performed in a ship’s boat with a clasp knife to remove pieces of shrapnel pressing on the patient’s lungs saved the life of a British sailor. His ship had been torpedoed and with 17 others he was adrift in an open boat in the Atlantic.The sailor’s arm was shattered, one foot injured, and he had a serious wound in the back. His comrades decided to operate. The second mate cauterised a clasp knife with flame, and probing the wound located and removed the shrapnel. The men nursed their injured comrade in their arms to prevent heavy seas washing him overboard. The lifeboat was picked up after four days and a half.
A surgeon said the operation with the clasp knife had undoubtedly saved the sailor's life.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 September 1941, Page 4
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