Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-26
is PICKED UP
INMID,0CEAN
MITHHISAIDE
Tramp Ship, Without a
Wireless, Saves Flyers;
London Celebrates.

London. May 26.-Missing for
six days and virtually given up for
+ lost. Harry G. Hawker and his
4 navigator, Lieutenant Commander
I Mackenzie Grieve, British ai-men
+ who essayed a flight across the At
lantic ocean without protection
against disaster save what their
frail airplane afforded, are safe
and on their way to London today
aboard a British warship off the
HSkneys.
Some time today they will reach
the mainland and proceed to Lon
don, where they will be acclaimed
as men returned to life.
Down 1,10o Miles From Start.
Some 100 miles out from New
foundland and 500 from the Irish
coast, on Monday. May 10, the avi-
ators, making the best of an en-
gine which was failing TO function
properly. were forced to alight on
the water.
The little Danish steamer Mary,
H hound from New Orleans and Nor
folk for Aarhuus, Denmark, picked
the wayfarers up and continued
on her northward voyage.
Lacking a wireless outfit, the
captain OF the steamer was obIig-
ed to withhold the good tidings OF
the rescue until he was opposite
Butt of Lewis, the northernmost
point of the Hebrides, off the
Scotch coast, where the informa-
tion was signaled. by means of
flags, that Hawker and Grieve were e
aboard his ship. 7----e
DestrOyers Take Flyers on.
Immediately word was flashed to
the British admiralty, which sent
out destroyers to overtake the
Danish vessel and obtain confirm
alton. This was done, and one o.
the destroyers took the airmen off
and later transfer red them to the
flagship Revenge.
From this safe haven Hawker
sent the following message from
A.st4fe Revenge 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, the like shaking
loose in the radiator"
1T was no fault of the Rolls
Royce motor, which ran absolutely
perfectly from start to finish, even
when all the water had boiled
away.
I'VE had no trouble i'll alighting
on the sea, where we were picked
up by the tramp ship Mary. after
being in the water for 80 minutes.
We leave Thurso at 2 p. m. Mon
day, arriving in London Tuesday
evening""
1t is officially announced by the
admiralty that the aviators were
picked up in latitude 50:20, longi-
tude 1890.
@seamer Signals News With Flags.
The first report of the ayiators
since their Jump off" last Sunday
came when the Mary, which was
bound from Norfolk to Aarhuss,
Denmark, rounded the Butt of
Lewis yesterday and wig-wagged
the fact that she had Hawker and
Grieve aboard.
Saved hands of Sopwith plane, !"
was the signal
1T is Hawker?" was the Ques-
ton sent out by the flags from the
Butt, which is the most northwest
erly point of the Hebrides group,
off Scotland.
The admiralty sent out fast tor
pedo-bo destroyers in an en-
deavor to intercept the Mary and
take of the aviators. There was
an anxious wait of several hours,
when word was flashed that the
q
across the steamer and transferred
Hawker and Grieve, and was taxi
ing them to Thurso, on the north
ern coast of Scotland. about one
hundred miles east of the Butt of
Lewis.
Nothing except some great
battle has excited London more
than yesterdays unexpected It'd
ings. The public was disposed to
question whether the first report
could be trusted, and the admiralty
statement that it was taking meas
ures to verify the report indi-
Gated doubt, which the Woolsun's
message dispelled.
Mrs. Hawker Informed.
Mrs. Hawker, wife of the aviator,
received the news from the Mary
EARLY this morning at her home
near Surbiton and posted a notice
outside her home reading:
Mr.. Hawker has been found. He
is on the boat Mary bound for Den
mark
There was a merry party in the
home of Harry G. Hawker, near
Surbiton tonight, many callers, in
Guiding o. NJ. Sopwith, head Of the
Scpwith Aviation company, build
ers of the machine in which Haw-
ker attempted to cross the 'Atlan-
tic, going to the house to congrat-
ulate Mrs. Hawker. Many airmen
were among those who called.
Never Lost Confidence.
Mrs. Hawker never lost conf