GRIM BOAT VOYAGE
MADE BY TANKER CREW TEN SURVIVE OUT OF 19 MADAGASCAR REACHED AFTER 30 DAYS (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, October 11. Nine seamen whose tanker was sunk by a Japanese raider six days out from an Australian port, reached Madagascar recently in an open lifeboat. They rowed and drifted 3,000 miles in 30 days. Ten other members of the tanker’s crew died during the voyage. Some of the men had been wounded by shell splinters. All suffered severely from short rations, exhausting work at the oars and sharp changes of temperature. At one stage of the voyage a storm capsized the boat, but the men clung to the seats and righted it.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 October 1943, Page 4
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119GRIM BOAT VOYAGE Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 October 1943, Page 4
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