TWO TORPEDOES

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20101, 22 November 1939, Page 5

TWO TORPEDOES

I BRITISH VESSEL j DOWN IN ROUGH SEA ELEVEN MEN MISSING RESCUE OF SURVIVORS STRETCHER CASES (Elgc. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Nov. 22, 11.15 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 21. The British steamer Arlington Court was sunk by a submarine of! the Irish coast. The ship was torpedoed without warning. The sea was rough and both lifeboats were badly damaged in launching. A second torpedo was fired and sank the ship, which foundered in less than half an hour. The Netherlands vessel Algenib rescued 22 members of the crew, of whom the chief engineer died aboard a lifeboat. Eleven members of the crew are missing. The survivors were landed at an Eire port early this morning. Most of them were injured, several being stretcher cases. Drifted for Three Days | They declared that the ship was torpedoed on Thursday last. They I drifted for three and a half days in a lifeboat which was damaged in launching, necessitating continuous bailing, before they were picked up. i The survivors, for whom sleep was out of the question owing to the condition of their boat and whose food ration’ was restricted to three biscuits and three glasses of water daily, with a little bully beef and condensed milk, were in an exhausted condition when they were landed. The Arlington Court was a ship of 5905 tons. She was a sister ship to the Kensington Court, which was sunk in the Atlantic by a German submarine.