The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-26

he was waiting to make the Ill fated
start on his crossing through the air to
Ireland. A fragmentary story OF what
happened at sea IN the extreme northern
lane along which Hawker chose to ny
was told to-day by the crew OF the Glen
devon. simultaneously with the receipt
of the Joyous news that Hawker and his
flying companion. Lieutenant-com-
nrander Mackenzie Grieve, both were
safe and sound aboard the Danish ship
which picked them UP at sea-
Receipt Of the news Of Hawker's and
Grieve's rescue provoked general rejoic-
ing here. especially so In the camp OF
the British aviators, who have been con-
tinuing their preparations to make tho
aerial crossing. Capt. Frederick p.
Raynham, whose fight was held up
through the collapse of the under carriage
Of his Martinsyde plane, and he never
had abandoned his opinion that, were
he found at all. Hawker would turn up
somewhere north Of Scotland.
Probably Missed storm.
He said he felt certain Of this because.
taken In conjunction with the story OF
the storm brought In by the crew Of the
Glendevon, II showed the reliability OF
his and Hawker's deductions regarding
probable weather conditions to be en-
countersd in midocean and beyond on
the night Of Hawker's fight. He said
| that the last weather map Hawker saw
| before making his memorable hop on
| from the Newfoundland coast showed
| storm areas north Of the Azores. APP
parently, though, Hawker got through
J that storm somehow or other. possibly
Just nosing II out or passing above It,
ILL., ~ nd
his officers are united In their assertion
that no airship however big or little
could have passed through II.
The Glendevons log shows the precfpi-
tate weather change that sent conditions
from Extremely hne" TO Full gale
in the twenty-four hours during which
Hawker and Grieve were TO have been
in the air Capt. II. w. Sudderby of the
Glendevon said he feels certain that
Hawker started the day before he did
he would have encountered only the most
ideal flying conditions.
| Light westerly winds and a moderate
sea are inscribed in the log as having
been encountered by the Glendevon in
the first hours after Hawker's hop of
Then the wind came along in n strong
blow and kept mounting steadily until
| finally the sea was dashed into fury
and the Glendevon rolled and strained
heavily. Through all Of this. officers and
men of the Glendevon were straining
their eyes, with and without glasses, In
an effort TO pierce the blackness OF the
night and catch q glimpse of the fiaring
red signals that wireless messages told
them would reveal the course of the
plane, as well as be the airship's signals
of distress.
Got wireless Message.
Hundreds Of messages flashed through
the air. Some were distinct and some
were incoherent One, thought for q
time to have come from the sopwith
struggled OF into incoherency after the
Glendevon's wireless operator hat
picked up this much: "Airplane, lost fog
longitude nineteen" Careful study
of other messages however. convinced
the Glendevon's officers >the message
could not have come from the Sopwith
since a message from the plane sent ou
a short time before by the steamship
lSamnanger placed her definitely beyond
tho longitude indicated in tho abbrevi
Rted message.
The message from the Samnanger. &C
cording to the deductions OF the Glen
ldevon's officers, showed that the Hawkel
plane was 6o.54 north latitude and 24.4;
west longitude.
That. Capt Sudderby said he figured
would have placed the Sopwith at thu
time $50 knots on the Irish coast and
about 80 knots from the Newfoundland
coast. II was just after this message
was received from the Samnanger tina
the weather change encountered by thu
Glendevon occurred, which explains thu
belief OF the Glendevon's men that Haw
ker had fiown out OF the storm area be
fore the worst OF II broke. They sale
that at Hawker's altitude the wind coulC