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Show Sailors Saved by Life- Jacket Signal Lights MIAMI, FLA. Red signal lights attached to their lifejackets were credited by four members of a navy gun crew with the speedy rescue of 95 men who took to life boats and rafts when their merchant ship was torpedoed late in April in mid-Atlantic by a submarine. Several hours after the ship went down, the survivors heard a plane which had come in answer to the distress signal sent by their radio operator. " 'Let's light up, boys,' the lieutenant lieu-tenant told us, and every one switched on his little red signal light," one of the survivors reported. After 12 hours in life boats, the torpedoed men were picked up and landed in Puerto Rico. |