Evening star., 1939-01-22
Survivors Found by Tanker
Battling for Life in Icy Sea;
y. S. Worship Rushes Physician
; on III-Futed Craft
Believed Drowned:
All Women Saved
The Survivors,:

The Associated Press re-
ported at o'clock this morn
ing the following we're res
cued from the wreckage of the
Cavalier:
Mrs. Donald Miller, Lincoln,
Nebr.
Charles M. Talbot, %, Brook
line, Mass.
Miss Nellie Tucker Smith,
Al, Pembroke, Bermuda.
Mrs. J. Gordon Noakes, NAL
ba, N. Y.
Mrs. Edna Watson, 43, Ber-
muda.
Mrs. George Ingham, "a,
Hamilton, Bermuda.
The rescued crew members,
all Englishmen, we're:
NJ. r. Anderson, captain.
Neil Richardson, first officer.
Patrick Chapman, radio Off
Ger.
David Williams, steward.
The Missing.
The following were missing:
Donald Miller, husband of
Mrs. Miller.
J. Gordon Noakes, husband
of Mrs. Noakes.
Robert Spence, steward.
fs the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. % Sunday
The tanker ESQ Baytown reported
Ito the Coast Guard early today that
it had found 10 survivors out of 13
persons aboard the British flying
boat Cavalier, which was forced
down at sea between New York and
Bermuda yesterday. The report said
three were lost, apparently drowned.
The 10 survivors were found cling
ing to the wreckage of the battered
Cavalier, which had been forced
down by heavy icing at lib pm.
tE. S. to, after leaving New York
for Bermuda.
Cold and exhausted by their 10
hour battle against the waves, the
survivors could not be questioned
Immediately, the Coast Guard
learned.
Names of the survivors we're not
known Immediately.
Searchlights Sweep Surface.
The Coast Guard cutter Cham
plain, which was standing near the
ESQ Baytown, swept the tossing sea
with its powerful searchlights, try
ing to locate the three missing per-
sons.
The report of the rescue from the
ESQ Baytown to the Coast Guard
at 1920 am. read:
I'VE picked up 10 survivors. These
survivors feel certain the other three
are lost"
The Baytown. owned by the Stand
ard Oil Co. of New Jersey, was the
first rescue ship to reach the scene
of the crash of the huge seaplane.
About a dozen air and surface
craft engaged in a 10-hour search
for the stricken ship, a 20-ton lux
urlous giant of the skyWays capable
of carrying 20 persons.
An S. o. S. several hours after
che Cavaliers takeoff from Port
Washington, Long Island, for Ham
ilton, Bermuda, started a parade by
air and sea to the location given by
the flying boat-about 322 miles
southeast of Cape May, N. j.
Sinking" Last Word.
Coast Guard cutters, planes, pas
eenger steamers, tankers-United
States and Canadian navy craft, all
joined the rush in an effort to res
cue the eight passengers and crew
of five. The Cavaliers wireless was
silenced after sending one last word:
Sinking"
The United States gunboat Erie
bound from the Canal Zone to the
New York Navy Yard, was about 1e
miles from the scene of the Wreckage
when the ESQ BaytoWn reported its
finding. 1t hurried to the spot with
a doctor. The ESQ BaytoWn had
sent an urgent wireless message say
ing:
Survivors are bad off. 1t you
can't send doctor tonight will start
for Cape Henry"
will send doctor right away
the Erie replied.
The gunboat turned on powerful.
searchlights to aid it's search for
the rescue ship.
Doctor Taken Aboard.
Shortly before am. (E. S. T) the
Coast Guard received a message that
the Erie had reached the ESQ Bay
town and was sending doctor over
in small boat.
News of the rescue caused can
collation. Of more extensive search
Orders to send seven Army bombers
from Langley Field, Va, into the
hunt were rescinded, but Maj. E. E
Glenn, executive officer of the Sec
ond wing, Air Corps, said the flight