50 DAYS ON A RAFT IN THE SOUTH ATLANTIC. THE RESCUE OF GEORGE MEDALLISTS SHIPS CARPENTER KENNETH COOKE, OF BRIDLINGTON (WHO KEPT A DIARY ON A PIECE OF SAIL CLOTH WHILE ADRIFT 50 DAYS IN THE SOUTH ATLANTIC) AND A/B COLIN ARMITAGE, OF MELTON, YORKS, THE ONLY SURVIVORS OF THEIR TORPEDOED SHIP. SIXTEEN MEN SURVIVED THE TORPEDOING BUT DIED ONE BY ONE UNTIL ONLY COOKE AND ARMITAGE REMAINED. THEY WERE FINALLY PICKED UP BY THE DESTROYER HMS RAPID AFTER THEIR 50 NIGHTMARE DAYS AND NIGHTS. - Cooke and Armitage on the "death raft" approach the destroyer RAPID

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