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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 01, 2009
Page
1
Survivors from the S S Athenia endure a long sea ordeal after the ship is torpedoed near Liverpool on September 3 1939. Scotty Gillespie and his family, later reunited aboard City of Flint, travel toward Winnipeg after a dramatic rescue and official notices.
A 1939 Winnipeg recount tells how Russell blacksmith Hay Gillespie taught swimming to his wife Jessie and sons Jim and Hay Jr before the Athenia torpedo strike. Lifeboat overturns left them adrift seven hours until rescue by the Southern Cross. the mother and boys survived without lifebelts.
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