New Britain herald., 1919-05-26
HAWkER AND GRIEYE
 BOTH SAVED AT SEA
r Picked Up by Small Steamer 300
 Miles From Ireland
WERE IN WATER 90 MINUTES

Wireless So Could Not Tell World Glad News-Engine Pump Became CIogged.
 London, May 26.-Missing for six days and virtually given up for lost, Harry Hawker, and his navigator, Lieut. Commander Grieve, the Brit 1sh airmen who essayed flight across the Atlantic ocean, without protection against disaster save what their frall alrpIane afforded are safe aboard British Warship off the Orkneys. When they reach the mainland they will proceed to London, where they will be acclaimed as men returned to life. Some one thousand one hundred miles out from Newfoundland and 800 from the Irish Coast, on Monday, May 19, the aviators making the best of an engine which was failing to function properly, were forced to alight on the water. The little Danish steamer Mary, bound from New Or leans and Norfolk for Aarhuus, Den
 
 continued on her northward voyage.> Ship Had No Wireless.
 Lacking a wireless outfit, the cap- tain of the steamer was obliged to withhold the good tidings of the res- cue until he was opposite Butt of Lewis, where the information was signaled, by means of flags, that Hawker and Grieve were aboard his ship.
 Immediately word was flashed to the British admiralty, which sent out destroyers to overtake the Danish vessel and obtain absolute confirma- tton. This was done, and one of the destroyers took the airmen off and later transferred them to the flagship Revenge.
 From this safe haven Hawker sent a message that his machine had stop ped owing to the blocking of the water circulation system.
 From the Revenge Hawker sent the Sfollowing message to The Daily Mail: My machine stopped owing to the water filter in the feed pipe from the radiator to the water pump being blocked with refuse, such as solder and the like, shaking loose in the radiator. It was no fault of the Rolls
 
 =@ perfect from start to finish, even v when all the water had boiled away.
 Tn Water for Ninety Minutes.
 We had no trouble in landing on the sea, where we were picked up by the tramp ship Mary, after being in the water for ninety minutes. We leave Thurso at D. m. Monday, ar irving in London Tuesday evening""
 
 admiralty that the aviators were tude 29.30. having alighted close to the little Danish steamer. The air. plane was not salvaged.
 The first report of the aviators since their famous jump off, last Sunday came when the Mary round- ed Butt of Lewis, the northernmost A point of the Hebrides Island and signaled the fact that she had Hawk CT and Grieve aboard.
 Saved hands of Sopwith airplane," was the signal.
 "Is it Hawker?" was the question sent out by the flags from the Butt
 "Yes," laconically replied the Mary
 The admiralty immediately sent ' out fast torpedo boat destroyer in an endeavor to intercept the Mary and take off the avators. There was an anxious wait of several hours, when the word was flashed that the destroyer had come across the steam CT and transferred Hawker and Grieve and was taking them to Thur so, on the northern coast of Scotland, about 100 miles east of Butt of Lewis. The Revenge reported to the ad- miralty later that Hawker and Grieve would sleep on board her tonight and would reach London at o'clock Tuesday evening.
 Will Get Prize of $25,OO
 The London Daily Mail, which of fered the purse of s50,000 for which Hawker and Grieve were flying, will P give Hawker and Grieve a consola- tion prize of $25, 900.
 There was a merry party in the home of Harry G. Hawker near Sur biton last night, many callers, includ- ing Thomas o. Sopwith, head of the Sopwith Aviation company, builders of the machine in which Hawker at tempted to cross the Atlantic, going %to the house to congratulate Mrs 2 Hawker. Many airmen were among those who called.
 Mrs. Hawker Ever Hopeful.
 Mrs. Hawker never lost confidence that her husband would be rescued Even on Saturday evening she was sstll hopeful, declared that Sunday was her lucky day and said:
 we shall have good news tomor- row" Today her home was inun- dated with telegrams of congratula. tion and the telephone in the gaily befagged dwelling was constant, ringing.
 In a message expressing his owr and the queens sympathy and con dolence, King George on Saturday ex