Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-05-26
Both Men in Perfect Health.
and Probably Did Not Re-
main in Water More Than a
Few Minutes.
STEAMER MARY HAD
NO WIRELESS OUTFIT
News Given to Land Station
By WigWag When the Little
Steamer Was Rounding theI
Butt of Lewis.

IeY moRNIR,l JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wIREl
London, May 25 (by the Associated
Press. missing for six days and vir-
tualy given up for lost, Harry G..
Hawker and his navigator, Lieut..
Com. Mackenzie GrieVe, British air.
men who essayed a flight across the
Atlantic ocean without protection
against disaster save what their frail
&irplane afforded, are safe tonight
aboard a British warship off the Ork
neys. Tomorrow they will reach the
mainland and proceed to London,
where they will be acclaimed as men
returned to life.
Some LOO miles out from New
foundland and 500 from the Irish
coast. Monday May 10, the aviators,
making the best of an engine which
was failing to function properly, were
forced to aiight on the water. The
little Danish steamer Mary, bound
from New Orleans and Norfolk for
Aarhuus, Denmark, picked up the
wayfarers and continued on. her
northward voyage.
Lacking a wireless outfit, the cap
tain of the steamer was obliged to
withhold the good tidings of the res
cac until lie was opposite Butt of
Lewis, where the information was sig
nailed BY means of flags, that Hawker
aud Grieve were aboard his ship.
Immediately word was flashed TO
the British admiralty, which sent out
destroyers to overtake the Danish
vessel and obtain confirmation. This
was done and one of the destroyers
took the airmen off, and later trans
ferred them to the flagship Revenge,
From this safe haven, Hawker sent
a message tonight that his machine
had stopped owing to the blocking of
the water circulation system.
plane FNiOated Well.
When the plane sped away from
her starting point, Pilot Hawker let.
loose his wheels and under gearing,
thereby tightening the weight of the
machine by a considerable amount,
but making a possible landing in Ire
land a more hazardous venture. This,
probably proved of much advantage
when it became necessary to allSht
on the water. The airplane remained
afloat without any difficulty during
the hour and a half it took the Danish
captain to effect II rescue.
All England is stirred by the news
of the safety of the two aviators, but
owing to the difficulties of communi-
cation some time must pass before
the full details of the voyage are
known.
The one person in England who had
always held hope was Mrs. HaWker
she always maintained that Provl-
dence would protect her man, and,
though she received condolences from
all classes of people. including the
king, she said today that she had
never ceased to believe that some time
and in some way her husband would
come back.
London, May 25.-Harry G.. Hawker
and Lieutenant Commander Mackenzie
Grieve, the two airmen wso started
lasl Sunday in an attempt to fly
across the Atlantic ocean from st.
Johns, Newfoundland, have been
picked up at sea and landed in Scot
land. Both men are in perfect
health.
1t is officially announced by the
admiralty that the aviators were
picked up in latitude 5000, longitude
1880, having alighted close to the
little Danish steamer Mary, owing to
n stoppage of circulation in the water
pipes between the radiator and the
water pump.
Plane Not Salvagcd
The Sopwith airplane was not sal
vaged.
The first report of the aviators
since their Jump Off last Sunday
came when the Mary, which was
bound from Norfolk to Aarhuus.
rounded of Butt of Lewis today and
w'gwagged the fact that she had
Hawker and Grieve aboard.
Saved hands of Sopwth airplane,
was the signel
"Is it Hawker?" was the question