LOSS OF CRUISER
SUNK IN THREE MINUTES Reed. Jan. 12, 9 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 11/ - The Admiralty announces the loss of the cruiser Galatea, a vessel of 5250 tons, launched in 1934 and carrying a complement of about 450. The Galatea went down three minutes after she had been thrice torpedoed from close range just after midnight in pitch darkness, says the Alexandria correspondent of the Associated Press. She had been patrolling with a squadron of cruisers and destroyers off Cyrenaica and had beaten off dive bombers for seven hours and then headed east and was off the Egyptian coast when she was torpedoed
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20661, 12 January 1942, Page 5
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104LOSS OF CRUISER Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20661, 12 January 1942, Page 5
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