SALVAGE FEAT
FLYING=BOAT TOWED TO PORT ACROSS SOUTH ATLANTIC. DIFFICULTIES OVERCOME IN heavy WEATHER. (British Official. Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) RUGBY, May 31. Towed for 74 hours across the South Atlantic, through a heavy swell and a strong cross wind, rain storms and an electrical storm, a Sunderland fly-ing-boat which came down into the sea with engine trouble, has been taken back almost undamaged to its base in West Africa by a corvette. No flyingboat had previously been towed for such a distance in open seas.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 June 1942, Page 4
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88SALVAGE FEAT Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 June 1942, Page 4
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