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GERMAN VESSELS U-BOAT FIRES ONE BEACHING OF STEAMER FOUR GERMANS KILLED (Reed. Nov. 28, H 0.30 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 27. The Admiralty has announced that a captured German merchantman, the Borkum, with a British prize crew aboard, was attacked by a U-boat and set on fire while proceeding to harbour. She was abandoned and driven ashore.
Four Germans were killed. There were no British casualties.
It is also announced that a British warship captured the Konsul Hendrik Fisser and took her to harioour.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20106, 28 November 1939, Page 7
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85CAPTIVE CRAFT Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20106, 28 November 1939, Page 7
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