SEA RESCUE
GALLANT EFFORT BY OFFICER & SEAMAN. LIVES OF WOMEN PASSENGERS SAVED. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October 24. Two women passengers on the British liner Avoceta, sunk by a U-boat in the Atlantic, owe their lives to an officer of the merchant navy and a naval signal rating. The ship was torpedoed in heavy weather and was sinking fast. No boats could be launched in time. As the Avoceta sank, the chief officer and the yeoman of signals took the two women and swam with them to small rafts which floated clear of the ship. The women were in a state of collapse, but for nearly three hours the two held them on the raft. Time after time the women nearly fell off the'raft as the seas swept over them. At last they were sighted by an escoH vessel and rescued. By this time both men were in a state of exhaustion and suffering from cold and exposure.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 October 1941, Page 5
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158SEA RESCUE Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 October 1941, Page 5
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