SUNK BY U-BOAT

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 85, 7 October 1940, Page 8

SUNK BY U-BOAT

LINER IN ATLANTIC

BRITISH WARSHIP TO THE

RESCUE

LONDON, October 5

A British warship has picked up and landed at a northern British port survivors from the liner Highland Patriot (14,172 tons), which was torpedoed in the Atlantic while on a voyage from South America. Twentyseven officers. 109 members of the crew, and 33 passengers were rescued. The warship saw dense smoke on the horizon and raced up, hoping to attack a German raider, but she found instead lifeboats iron which she embarked survivors.

It is reported that three men were killed in the engine-room and four other persons hurt andj taken to hospital. The passengers included a number of British citizens who were to join the forces in England, and also two stewardesses and two women passengers.* The U-boat fired two torpedoes; the first set fire to the ship, which blazed for several hours before sinking.

The Highland Patriot in January had a two hours' fight with a U-boat, which fired five torpedoes before being driven off by the ship's guns. The British merchantman Corrientes (6863 tons) was sunk by enemy action last week. The crew are safe and are expected to land at an American port. A New York message states that the captured German freighter Weser has arrived at Esquimalt (British Columbia) with a prize crew and under naval escort.