LOSS OF EVACUEE SHIP

Evening Star, Issue 23692, 27 September 1940, Page 8

LOSS OF EVACUEE SHIP

FORTY-SIX MORE SURVIVORS SIX CHILDREN INCLUDED (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 26. (Received September 27, at 1.15 p.m.) Forty-six more survivors of the City of Benares, the evacuee ship torpedoed in the Atlantic last week, were landed at a British, port to-night. They spent eight days in a lifeboat before being sighted and picked up. Six more children were among those saved, leaving the number of child victims of the torpedoing at 79. The survivors paid a tribute to the heroism of the children during the anxious days of exposure at sea. SIGHTED BY FLYING BOATS WARSHIP GUIDED TO SPOT LONDON, September 26. (Received September 27, at 1.40 p.m.) Two Sunderland flying boats, one of which was Australian, found the additional survivors. A warship later picked up the survivors, who were 600 miles from land. The Australian Sunderland had just been relieved from convoy duty when it found the lifeboat. The Australian captain flew to the convoy and asked the captain of the R.A.F, Sunderland which had taken over from him to ensure that the survivors were rescued.