Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1919 — HAWKER AND GRIEVE FOUND [ARTICLE]

HAWKER AND GRIEVE FOUND

Daring Aviators Are Saved by a Danish Tramp Stdamer. London, May 25. —Harry G. Hawker and Lieut. Commander MacKenzle Grieve, the two airmen who started last Sunday in an attempt to fly across the Atlantic ocean from St, Johns, Newfoundland, have been picked up at sea. Both men are in perfect health. (Hawker and Grieve were in the water for an hour and a half be* fore being taken aboard the steamer Mary. 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 Denmark.” A crowd of villagers soon gathered and showered Mrs. Hawker with congratulations. Missing for six days and virtually given uip for lost, Harry G. Hawker and his navigator, Lieut. Commander MacKenzle Grieve, British airmen who essayed a flight across the Atlantic ocean, without protection against disaster save what their frail airplane afforded, are safe tonight aboard a British warship off the Orkneys. Tomorrow they will reach the mainland and proceed to London where they will be -acclaimed as men returned to life. Some 1,100 miles out from Newfoundland and 800 from the Irish coast on Monday, May 19, the aviators making the best of an engine which was falling to function properly were forced to alight' on the water. The little Danish steamer Mary, bound from New Orleans and Norfolk for Aarhuus, Denmark, picked the wayfarers up and continued on her northward voyage.