On Thursday 12th April 1928 at 05:30 hrs two Germans, Captain Kohl and Baron von Hunefeld and Commandant J.C. Fitzmaurice, an Irishman, took-off from Baldonnel aerodrome near Dublin in an attempt to fly direct to New York, the East-West crossing of the Atlantic never having been made. Their mount was a single-engined Junkers - the Bremen - which was reported the next day to have crashed on Greenly Island in the Straits of Belle Isle, Labrador, where Charles Lindberg duely flew spare parts to them in an abortive attempt to set them on their way. News of their crash - and their success in being the first successfully to cross the Atlantic from East to West - was relayed by wireless from a light house on Greenly Island. This led to a dramatic airborne rescue by two Canadians, Duke Schiller and Louis Cuisimer from Murray Bay Quebec using an aircraft fitted with skis. Eventually the three record breakers were flown to New York in a Ford aeroplane for a grand reception.