SEA RESCUE
SUNDERLAND PICKS UP 50 MEN. CREW OF TORPEDOED STEAMER. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, March 22. The captain of a Sunderland flyingboat in the south Atlantic spotted 50 members of the crew of a torpedoed steamer in three lifeboats. Ke packed them all into his plane and flew home. The Sunderland had to taxi five miles over the sea before she was able to rise. Three submarines had attacked the steamer, injuring 12 members of the crew.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 March 1942, Page 3
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79SEA RESCUE Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 March 1942, Page 3
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