TORPEDOED AMIDSHIPS
NORWEGIAN TANKER
A LIFEBOAT MISSING
(Received November 15, 11.40 a.m.)
LONDON, November 14.
A northern trailer landed 23 members of the crew of a Norwegian tanker which was torpedoed amidships without warning. The survivors were adrift 'in a lifeboat for 30 hours before being picked up. A long search was made for a 7 second lifeboat containing the | captain and 16 bthei*members of the crew but without result.
Survivors stated that the tanker's wireless was put out of adtion. The crew.- hurriedly abandoned ship. The mate's boat took the captain's boat in tow, but the boats separated during a storm in the night. The next day they searched fruitlessly, and finally at* tracted the attention of the trawler by means of a fl&re.
The. men declared that they could not have lasted much longer, and added that they were very anxious as to the fate of the captain, who was exhausted when the tanker was torpedoed as a result of being 36 hours on the bridge without a. rest.
An east coast \lifeboat, after 17 hours at sea, landed 46/ survivors of two British ships which struck the same submerged wreckage on November 5. Another British steamer struck the same wreckage oh November 4.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 118, 15 November 1939, Page 9
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