A TERRIBLE ORDEAL
IN ICY SEA. OARSMEN FROZEN TO DEATH. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) NEW YORK, February 23. “I will never forget it as long as I live,” said Navy Signalman Robert Weikart, whose vessel was the first to reach the area where 850 perished as the result of submarine action against the two U.S. cargo ships carrying passengers. Weikart said he wondered Why survivors were not picked up. “We passed close by one lifeboat full of people.” he said. “Men were at the oars, but they were not moving. Then it dawned on me that they were frozen to death. I saw the sea dotted with bobbing heads in lifejackets, hundreds of them. I cannot say how long they were in the icy water. The attack must have been a complete surprise as many of the bodies were undressed.” t
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 February 1943, Page 4
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