MINE TRAGEDY IN ATLANTIC
Received Fridav, 7,0 p.m. ! . LOXDOX, Xov. 11. Xino members' of. the crew of n steam trawler were killed when a minet becanie eirta'ngled in the xiets and etxjUod) ed twenty niiles off the Gounty Cork Goast. Five others were injured, oue seriouslv. Cunard and White Star officials are discussing with the Adniiralty today the mining of the trawler. The Daily Mail says the mining is causing eoncern in shipping cireles as it oeeurred near tlie main Atlantie shipping lane. 'J'he trawler split in two and sank in .'!() seconds. Other trawlers reseued tlie live injured survivors. This is the third trawlex sunk by a mine off tlie Cork coast this vear.
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Chronicle (Levin), 16 November 1946, Page 5
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