A British plane diving over one of the lifeboats from the freighter Fanad Head, which was sunk by a U-boat. The fliers sighted the boats and signalled by morse to a destroyer, which picked up the full crew after they had drifted for 12 hours.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20989, 16 December 1939, Page 7
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45A British plane diving over one of the lifeboats from the freighter Fanad Head, which was sunk by a U-boat. The fliers sighted the boats and signalled by morse to a destroyer, which picked up the full crew after they had drifted for 12 hours. Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20989, 16 December 1939, Page 7
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