BRITISH SHIP IN PORT DURING AIR-RAID
LONDON, Aug. 29. The story of the Hjlda Moller, the British steamer which was bombed by Spanish insurgent planes, was told when she put in at Falmoutli for a general survey. She was struck jn a score of places bjr bomb splinters. ghe was at Gijon when six planes swept over the harbour, driving the panicstricken dockers and the populace "to slieiter in cliff-sjde tunnels and dugouts, whither the crews of the Hilda Moller and other vessels hastened to follow. a» shrapnel killed two washerwomen on the riverside and wounded a greaser aboard the Stanbridge. Air bombs blem up a merchant ship, and a coastal vessel capsized and sank another coaster. The Hilda Moller was holed above the waterline. The Stanbridge was severely battered, because she yas alongside a Spdnish vessel which was the bombers' target. The Hilda Moller, the Stanbridge and the Afriean Trader departed together, the Afriean Trader leaking so badly that she was forced to enter La Pallice, where she will probably be" beached.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 192, 31 August 1937, Page 7
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