The Elbert County tribune., 1919-05-30
|HAWKER and
GRIEvE SAVED
sIRD-MEN RESCUED IN MID
OCEAN BY DANISH STEAM
SHIP.
WERE 1,10O MILES OUT
ENGINE TROUBLE FORCED THE
FLlERs TO LIGHT IN
ATLANTIC.
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Western Newspaper Union News Service
New York. May 26.-The Danish
steamship Mary, which picked up
Hawker and Grieve. was originally the
British freighter Grovehall and was
built at West Hartlepool eleven years
ago. The Mary is not equipped for
rescue work, being just little single
decked ship, travelling in high latitudes
to shorten the route and save coal.
Her net tonnage is 1.124 and her
length 27S feet. She was bound from
New Orleans for Aarhuus, Denmark,
May 4. Making eight knots an hour 1t
took her thirty-three days on her last
trip to the westward from Shields to
New Orleans
London.-sIissing for six days and
virtually given up for lost, Harry G.
Hawker and his navigator. Lieut.. Com
mander Mackenzie Grieve, British air
men, who essayed flight across the
Atlantic ocean without protection
against disaster save what their frau
airpIane afforded, are safe aboard
British warship.
Some LOO miles out from New
foundIand and 500 from the Irish
coast, the aviators, making the best of
an engine which was falling to func-
ton properly, were forced to alight 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
cue until he was opposite the Butt of
Lewis, where the information was sig
nailed 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 oyerake the Danish yes
sci and obtain confirmation 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
stopped owing to the blocking of the
water clrculatlOn SYSTEM
When the airplane sped away from
her starting point Pilot Hawker let
loose his wheels and undergearing
thereby Tightening the weight of the
machine by u considerable amount,
but making a possible landing in Ire
land more hazardous venture.
This probably proved of much ad-
x-a N prsaf 90 xx,hA . bafs -,
alight on the water The airplane re-
NAMED afloat without much difficulty
during the hour and a half it took the
Danish steamer to effect a rescue.
Hawker sent the following message
from the Revenge TO the Daily Mail :
MY machine stopped owing 10 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
1T was no fault of the Rolls-Royce
motor, which ran absolutely perfect
from start to finish, even when all
the water had boiled away.
"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"
The news of the rescue has electri-
fled all Britain.
All England is stirred by the news
of the safety of the two aviators. The
one person in England who had always
held hope was Mrs. Hawker. She al
ways maintained that Providence
would protect her husband. and,
though she received condolences from
all classes of people. including the
king, she said that she had never
ceased to believe that some time and
in some way her husband would come
back.